Enjoyable sub-Hitchcockian thriller that manages to combine Nazi war criminals with the HUAC hearings. Kelly McGillis is the uncooperative witness who starts playing amateur detective when she stumbles on some very unsavory Germans in league with one of the senate committee. "The House on Carroll Street" was directed by Peter Yates who brings his customary level of professionalism to proceedings, (it's a period piece and the period detail is first-rate).
Of course, all amateur detectives need a professional in their corner and Kelly finds hers in Jeff Daniel's FBI man. It may fall well short of "Notorious" or indeed any other similarly themed Hitchcock movie but it's got a good plot and a fair quota of thrills and as well as Daniels and McGillis it's also got a splendidly sleazy villain in Mandy Patinkin, (the nasty committee guy) and Jessica Tandy doing her spunky old lady bit. The fine screenplay is by Walter Bernstein.
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