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• Beyond doubt Lang's worst

  • Emgee
  • 10/24/10

  Even the best directors have at least one bad movie to their name, and this is Fritz Lang's nadir. It looks like the poor effort of a rookie director, not of one of cinema's masters. What went wrong? It's as if Lang sabotaged his own movie to get out of a contract, and it's probably no coincidence that it's his last American film. The story is implausible to say the least, but with more effort still could have resulted in a fine movie. But with a drunk, morose lead, a co-star without any role worth that name and a director with his thoughts on going back to Europe what can you expect? Not much, and that's exactly what you get.

• Potential Only!

  • Steve S.
  • 7/13/09

  Perhaps in the hands of another studio e.g. 20th Century Fox this could have turned out to be a very good film but the ill-fated and Howard Hughes owned RKO gives us a mediocre picture, at best!

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