WasAnnon Slow pace in the most part of the movie.

Griff Lees Very good movie overall, highly recommended. Most of the negative reviews don't have any merit and are all pollitically based. Give this movie a chance at least, and it might give you a different perspective.

Jonah Abbott There's no way I can possibly love it entirely but I just think its ridiculously bad, but enjoyable at the same time.

Taha Avalos The best films of this genre always show a path and provide a takeaway for being a better person.

Tad Pole . . . it's a wonder that the "Axis" (that is, Hitler's Germany, Mussolini's Italy, and Tojo's Japan) managed to lose World War Two. Some over-rated English-speaking schmuck named "Hitchcock" was tapped to answer "Leni Riefenstahl's" masterwork TRIUMPH OF THE WILL with a propaganda piece of his own. The garbled result from "Hitch"--ADVENTURE MALGACHE--is so incoherent that it seems an early wasted effort on the part of those proverbial million typing monkeys alleged to have the ability to churn out a Shakespeare play IF you have the patience to change their typewriter ribbons for a million years. ADVENTURE MALGACHE makes viewers wonder whether Hitch and his crew even possessed opposable thumbs. MALGACHE's nonsensical alternating scenes (flitting between a post-war Parisian theatrical dressing room and war-time Vichy Madagascar) is a contrivance so clumsy that it would have given even the monkeys fits to dream up. Ms. Riefenstahl wouldn't have been caught dead attaching her name to something as counter-productive as MALGACHE. Perhaps Hitch was a double agent.

Horst in Translation (filmreviews@web.de) "Aventure malgache" is a French documentary drama from over 70 years ago and the only reason it is somewhat known today is because of its director. Alfred Hitchcock shot this film during World War II and it's one of his very few French movies, so make sure you catch a set of subtitles when watching this. I have seen some Hitch, not even close to most of his works, but I thought there was nothing memorable about this one here. It's black-and-white and runs for slightly over half an hour. It can be a decent watch with people in a great interest in French history, resistance, etc. but I found none of the drama really that well done in here and I am actually glad to see that Hitchcock did not stretch this to a full feature drama film. Certainly one of his weakest projects, which is slightly disappointing as he made some of his classics already before this one, even if his great successes followed a bit later. With the exception of Paul Bonifas, the cast is not known at all either, many of them never appeared in film again. Not a good watch, not recommended.

joshg1 May contain spoiler- I don't see one, you might. This movie was commissioned to boost the exploits of the résistants after France was liberated- a political move on the part of DeGaulle's government in exile. It is well made, acted, and directed- the only fault on Hitchcock's part I mention below. The story moves at a steady pace and the actors and actions are entirely believable, whether or not the whole story is true.The only problem I had was with the end. Those actions should have taken a larger part of the movie and involved more characters. This movie was not released because it shows how the French were divided on what course of action to take in the many aspects of their lives. Unity was the goal audiences were to come away with- Aventure failed in that aspect.There is no reason to not see this movie if you have a chance- it won't come around again soon. I admit I didn't appreciate the wonderful ending until the next day.I am biased toward this film because I am fascinated by the ambiguity of life in WW2.

mattker A recent article on Australian Web Journal SENSESOFCINEMA brings a lot of new information (cast, script,etc.)on this underrated film.For example,interesting link between the French actor who plays MICHEL, and a character in a well known Stanley Donen movie.A connection between DZ91,code name of a British Secret Service agent during WWII and Paul CLARUS,a French lawyer from Madagascar. Another point of view regarding the MOLIERE PLAYERS and some members of the Company.Documents from the British National Archives, and from a French private collection.