The Clouded Yellow
MysteryThriller
6.2/10
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|95 min
Release Date: 1950-11-21
Overview - After leaving the British Secret Service, David Somers finds work catalouging butterflies at the country house of Nicholas and Jess Fenton. After the murder of a local gamekeeper, suspicion falls on their niece, Sophie Malraux. Somers helps Sophie to escape arrest and they go on the run together.
Production Companies
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User Reviews
John Chard
7/10
Love is like a butterfly, as soft and gentle as a sigh. The Clouded Yellow is directed by Ralph Thomas and written by Eric Ambler and Janet Green. It stars Trevor Howard, Jean Simmons, Sonia Dresdel, Barry Jones, Kenneth More and Geoffrey Keen. Taut British spy thriller with Hitchcockian flavours, The Clouded Yellow finds David Somers (Howard) as an ex-secret service operative working as a b...
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CinemaSerf
7/10
Ralph Thomas has assembled a superior cast for this intriguing thriller. MI6 agent Trevor Howard ("Somers") returns from a mission to find he has outlived his usefulness and is to be put out to grass, He finds work at a remote country house were he is to help the ostensibly eccentric owner "Fenton" (Barry Jones) with his butterfly collection. On his way to the house, he gives a lift to their rathe...
