On his way to an awards ceremony, Mr. Sebastian (Dirk Bogarde) runs into Becky Howard (Susannah York) on the street, and although they get off to a rough start, he ends up offering her a job when she recognizes his name backwards. It turns out he runs the all-female decoding office of British Intelligence, and she is to be a code-breaker. Once she settles into her new job and starts falling for Sebastian, however, a security breach erupts and puts everything into jeopardy. Wikipedia
On his way to an awards ceremony, Mr. Sebastian (Dirk Bogarde) runs into Becky Howard (Susannah York) on the street, and although they get off to a rough start, he ends up offering her a job when she recognizes his name backwards. It turns out he runs the all-female decoding office of British Intelligence, and she is to be a code-breaker. Once she...