Extended operations of the Gestapo are displayed in this film version of Geoffrey Household's novel, Rogue Male. Household's tale of an English big game hunter and adventurer who invades the closely guarded precincts of Berchtesgaden to draw a bead on Hitler with an unloaded rifle, his capture and torture by the Gestapo; escape and return to England and further hounding by German agents; and final dropping back into Germany with a rifle for a further crack at Hitler, fails to sustain adventurous excitement on screen. | Walter Pidgeon is the Englishman hounded by the Gestapo. He does a good job of the assignment throughout. Joan Bennett is the Limey girl who befriends him, but her attempts at affected cockney accents are always synthetic (why does Hollywood have such a problem with the cockney accent? It's not that difficult to simulate but to this day they have never done it justice). George Sanders is generally menacing as the Gestapo chief. Fritz Lang's direction maintains excellent suspense in the first half, but yarn hits the skids for the second section to wind up with a series of overdrawn and inconclusive sequences. 3 STARS OUT OF 5 man hunt dvds | videos al pacino | michelle pfeiffer yul brynner | christopher plummer | romy schneider the godfather | the godfather part ii marlon brando | james caan | diane keaton | al pacino laurence olivier | clark gable | vivien leigh | leslie howard | alfred hitchcock | robert montgomery | grace kelly olivia de havilland | humphrey bogart | howard hawks | frank capra | charlie chaplin | lauren bacall | fritz lang jean harlow | greta garbo | ava gardner | audrey hepburn | edward g. robinson | john garfield erich von stroheim | wim wenders | madeleine carroll | marlene dietrich | rita hayworth fritz lang dvds fritz lang videos man hunt dvds | videos al pacino | michelle pfeiffer yul brynner | christopher plummer | romy schneider the godfather | the godfather part ii marlon brando | james caan | diane keaton | al pacino laurence olivier | clark gable | vivien leigh | leslie howard | alfred hitchcock | robert montgomery | grace kelly olivia de havilland | humphrey bogart | howard hawks | frank capra | charlie chaplin | lauren bacall | fritz lang jean harlow | greta garbo | ava gardner | audrey hepburn | edward g. robinson | john garfield erich von stroheim | wim wenders | madeleine carroll | marlene dietrich | rita hayworth Page created by: ihuppert5@aol.com Changes last made: 2010