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| runtime = 95 minutes (UK) (also given as 98 minutes)〔("Yellow Canary (Overview)." ) ''The New York Times.'' Retrieved: 22 March 2012.〕 84 minutes, edited (U.S.)〔("Yellow Canary: Overview." ) ''Turner Classic Movies.'' Retrieved: 22 March 2012.〕 | country = United Kingdom | language = English | budget = | gross = }} ''Yellow Canary'' is a 1943 British drama film well written and acted, directed by Herbert Wilcox and starring Anna Neagle, Richard Greene and Albert Lieven. Neagle plays a British Nazi sympathizer who travels to Halifax, Canada, trailed by spies from both sides during the Second World War. Neagle and director/producer Wilcox had collaborated on a number of previous film projects previously.〔Neagle 1974, p. 119.〕 ==Plot== This World War II movie brilliantly opens with Sally Maitland (Anna Neagle) appearing to signal Nazi planes to bomb England after murdering an innocent citizen in his home. The next morning Sally boards a ship bound from Britain for Canada crossing an Atlantic with German predators afoul. Two of the passengers, Jim Garrick (Richard Greene) and Polish officer Jan Orlock (Albert Lieven), seek her acquaintance despite her long-time, and well-known admiration for Nazi Germany. It soon becomes common knowledge that Jim is in British intelligence. Sally rebuffs his advances, but welcomes Jan's attention. Much later in the film to keep us guessing, we learn that Sally is in fact a deep cover British agent on a secret mission shadowing her quarry Jan. She chases Jan across the globe thwarting sabotage against the allies. Unbeknownst to Sally, Jim is assigned to help and protect her on the same mission. The ship is stopped in mid-ocean by the heavy cruiser ''Prinz Eugen'' and a boarding party takes Jim prisoner. To the puzzlement of the ship's captain, the cruiser allows the ship to continue on its way. It also turns out that the Germans have captured an imposter, when Jim emerges from hiding. When they reach the port of Halifax, Nova Scotia, Jan introduces Sally to his mother, Madame Orlock (Lucie Mannheim), an invalid. Jim uses his contacts to have Sally appear to be a true Nazi sympathizer by having Canadian government men expose her and warn the Orlocks to stay away from her due to her Nazi leanings. Sally then bluffs the Orlocks and pretends to try to break off their relationship to avoid trouble for them, and Jan reveals that he is working for the Nazis. Orlock recruits Sally into his spy ring on the night of their greatest exploit to her delight. Sally has been waiting for this chance to find out who his fellow conspirators are, especially the leader. To Sally's surprise, the leader of the ring turns out to be Madame Orlock, who is not actually Jan's mother. She reveals that one of the ships of an incoming convoy has been secretly replaced by another, filled with explosives, which is to be detonated when the convoy reaches Halifax. It is planned that the resulting explosion will wreck the vital port, a plan inspired by the devastating accident of the First World War. At this point, Jan reveals he is anxious to make up for a recent bungled secret mission to bomb British Royalty in England which failed due to his contact man sending incorrect landmark signals to the planes. It is here the opening scene is explained. Sally feigns concern and innocently asks what happened to the contact man. Jan reveals that he was shot though the head. Sally seems to smile morbidly reliving the triumph over an adversary, a predator's quality which many spies probably possess in the 'cloak and dagger' game. We find out how great an agent Sally is for murdering the Nazi contact and thwarting that mission, and then following Jan to Canada. Sally finally learns that Jim is assigned to her mission when catching him breaking into Jan's study to try to uncover evidence, just as she has. In a bit of womanly bravado befitting the opening scene murder, she announces Jan is her quarry, and for Jim to let her do the paper snooping while he watches the door. Later, after being caught unawares after Orlock has snuck(okay, sneaked) in her room, she thinks fast on her feet to explain her friendliness to Jim after they team up officially and are overheard laughing and joking about Orlock when she enters her room, Orlock believes she is a double agent but she claims she is tricking the enemy and avoids getting summarily executed by Orlock. She then slips Jim a note written in lipstick advising him to wait at headquarters for information and heads off with Orlock. In the finale, Orlock orders Sally to telephone Jim and tell him that an attempt will be made to sabotage the ''Queen Mary'', scheduled to sail later that night, and that all available agents should be immediately sent to stop it. Sally is able to warn of the actual plot to the British over the telephone. Canadian bombers are then dispatched to blow up the ship. Meanwhile, Jan shoots Sally before Jim can rescue her; fortunately the bullet is stopped by a cigarette case which he gave to her earlier, and she and Jim are married. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Yellow Canary (film)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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