Rendezvous

A man is an expert at breaking codes. His work is to make enemy messages readable. That work brings him up against spies. The spies come after him. He, in turn, tries to spoil their plans. The account is set in wartime. Secret codes are at the centre of the story. The film runs its war subject alongside comedy. Breaking the codes is the main line of the account. His own life gets drawn into that work. Espionage and ordinary life stand side by side. William Powell and Rosalind Russell take the leads, with Binnie Barnes and Lionel Atwill also in the cast, in the American film of 1935 by William K. Howard and Sam Wood.