Gripping movie, and thanks to Archive collections, they have brought out a relatively sharp DVD, with not much discontinuity, a few were there, but is entirely pardonable.
Two persons, each escaping the horrors of their life by shunning the society, and each of them forcing one person each, to share their misery, probably both not liking it. One definitely, the other, the Man Friday of Hero, doesn't protest, may be since he shouldn't, bound by duty to his master. One is a war veteran. The history isn't told, only hinted that he had lived through the horror of war, so it isn't entirely abnormal that he became abnormal. Probably he lost his kin in that too, there is no mention of the parents of his grand daughter, unwilling but thoroughly conditioned to his frame of mind- misanthrop as well as agoraphobic. They come across the misanthrope but claustrophobic (not exactly, but one who likes to live in open).
I will say the roles relatively well performed by all the five characters, in fact including the sixth, whose only error was closing the eyes while dead, and just a hint of hand-movement when her corpse was over-handled by her husband. I wonder who was she, there was a guess of her being one of the five (Valli), but looking closely, I don't think it was she. Whoever she was, she definitely looked a bit more feminine and sweeter that Valli, where did she disappear I wonder. I thought once she could have been Boardman, but it wasn't she either. Probably the best was the menacing and demented maniac, Charles Post, the second credit would go to Valli, the confused woman, whose brain is trained one way, and instincts call the other. Considering it's vintage, probably it is one of the better made movies of the time. Even the action scenes didn't have too much of 'drama' element.
I will say the roles relatively well performed by all the five characters, in fact including the sixth, whose only error was closing the eyes while dead, and just a hint of hand-movement when her corpse was over-handled by her husband. I wonder who was she, there was a guess of her being one of the five (Valli), but looking closely, I don't think it was she. Whoever she was, she definitely looked a bit more feminine and sweeter that Valli, where did she disappear I wonder. I thought once she could have been Boardman, but it wasn't she either. Probably the best was the menacing and demented maniac, Charles Post, the second credit would go to Valli, the confused woman, whose brain is trained one way, and instincts call the other. Considering it's vintage, probably it is one of the better made movies of the time. Even the action scenes didn't have too much of 'drama' element.