Two of a Kind

On the prowl for fresh backgrounds at low cost, U.S. independent moviemakers have lately been shooting pictures abroad, with a U.S. star or two for box-office bait. Two samples:

Circle of Danger (Joan Harrison; United Artists) sets Ray Milland down in Britain as an American who suspects that his brother's wartime death in a Commando raid was really the result of foul play. Milland's hunt for the killer takes him to the Welsh coal pits, the highlands of Scotland, the English countryside, the streets of London. The tour has genuine atmosphere, but the story lacks pace and imagination, and gains no lift from Mil-land's romantic side trip with Britain's Patricia Roc.

Three Steps North (W. Lee Wilder; United Artists) wastes not only up & coming Lloyd Bridges and its Italian backgrounds and supporting cast (Lea Padovani, Aldo Fabrizi), but also a promising melodramatic idea. Bridges is an ex-G.I. who has served time for black-marketeering and goes back to dig up his loot. The site is a G.I. cemetery, and the nearby town is full of schemers trying to trip Bridges up for reasons of their own. They thicken the plot with so much intrigue that it curdles into the kind of confusion best followed with a score card listing names and numbers of all the actors.

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