This hard-to-find movie was a good spy drama capturing the spirit of the international-production era of "big TV". Cliff Robertson plays an American serving in British Army Intelligence in early WW2 Cairo Egypt. There's a threat that Egypt - and Africa - will be lost to the Nazis, and spies abound, as does fleeting loyalty on the part of Egyptians not necessarily on the British side. Widower Cliff crosses paths with Season Hubley, a lady of the evening, in his efforts to defeat or apprehend a German spy played by David Soul. There's derring-do, ineffectual supervision, plot twists and a few stabbings. Overall, I liked it as a period piece. But there's also some TV history here: Lina Raymond, playing Sonya the belly dancer/voluptuary and Season Hubley both do topless nude scenes, the very first ones for females in a major TV market (WPIX-TV NY, 4/29/85 and 5/9/85). That marks some history, if obscure, for The Key To Rebecca.
Review of The Key to Rebecca
