La Baie aux émeraudes

SYNOPSIS

Walt Disney fashioned numerous star vehicles for young Hayley Mills, and here she's involved (along with the wonderfully husky-voiced Joan Greenwood) in some likeable nonsense about jewel thieves in Crete. But it's the supporting cast that makes this worth watching: silent screen vamp Pola Negri came out of retirement to play the mysterious Madame Habib, her first movie since 1943, only to be upstaged by the evil Eli Wallach and Greek star Irene Papas as his sister. Unfortunately, it doesn't quite come off as a Hitchcock-style mystery, and Mary Stewart's original novel should really have been completely reworked for the screen.