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26 May 1945 (Sweden)
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British hunter Thorndike vacationing in Bavaria has Hitler in his gunsight. He is captured, beaten, left for dead...
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DVD Playhouse--June 2009
(From The Hollywood Interview. 3 June 2009, 12:41 PM, PDT)
Man Hunt - DVD Review
(From Monsters and Critics. 2 June 2009, 9:49 AM, PDT)
(From The Hollywood Interview. 3 June 2009, 12:41 PM, PDT)
Man Hunt - DVD Review
(From Monsters and Critics. 2 June 2009, 9:49 AM, PDT)
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Surprisingly bad film from such a pedigreed group
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | Walter Pidgeon | ... | Captain Thorndike |
| Joan Bennett | ... | Jerry |
| George Sanders | ... | Quive-Smith |
| John Carradine | ... | Mr. Jones |
 | Roddy McDowall | ... | Vaner |
| Ludwig Stössel | ... | Doctor (as Ludwig Stossell) |
| Heather Thatcher | ... | Lady Risborough |
| Frederick Worlock | ... | Lord Risborough |
| Roger Imhof | ... | Captain Jensen |
| Egon Brecher | ... | Jeweler |
| Lester Matthews | ... | Major |
| Holmes Herbert | ... | Farnsworthy |
| Eily Malyon | ... | Postmistress |
| Arno Frey | ... | Police Lieutenant |
| Frederick Vogeding | ... | Ambassador (as Fredrik Vogeding) |
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105 min
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1.37 : 1 more
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Mono (Western Electric Mirrophonic Recording)
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Australia:PG |
USA:Approved (certificate #7219) |
Canada:G (video rating) |
Finland:K-16 |
Sweden:15
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When Thorndike (Pidgeon) is captured, the George Sanders character inspects his belongings including his rifle, which bears the maker's name of "Hammond and Hammond, Bond Street". There was no such gunsmith in the UK and it seems likely they name is borrowed from a very famous gunsmith called Holland and Holland of Bruton Street, which is situated nearby.
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Vaner:
Have you committed a crime?
Captain Alan Thorndike: No.
Vaner: Was it, um, about a woman?
Captain Alan Thorndike: [smiling] I see you know life.
Vaner: I thought so, sir. They're a dickens of a problem, aren't they?
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Captain Alan Thorndike: No.
Vaner: Was it, um, about a woman?
Captain Alan Thorndike: [smiling] I see you know life.
Vaner: I thought so, sir. They're a dickens of a problem, aren't they?
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Referenced in Rogue Male: The Making of 'Man Hunt' (2009) (V)
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She Was Poor but She Was Honest
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Essentially a undistinguished B-movie that mysteriously is directed by one of the golden era's major talents, Fritz Lang. Even with the stellar names of Lang, Walter Pidgeon, Joan Bennett and George Sanders, be prepared for a ludicrous storyline, bad acting, patently phony sets and miscasting. For transparency sake, I have to admit I am an ardent non-admirer of Walter Pidgeon, who was lucky to have found a niche at the artificial dream-factory of MGM, and somehow worked in secondary roles, supporting Greer Garson and others. He is wildly miscast, acting in a chipper, '30s-Ray Milland madcap comedy tone, in a role where his life is in danger, and he is in hiding. Joan Bennett's cockney accent is excessive, but her lacquered hair, perfect makeup and classy outfit belies a street-wise Cockney slum-girl. George Sanders is incapable of bad acting, but disappears after the preposterous opening finds Pidgeon somehow pretending to shoot Adolph Hitler. Surprising for Fritz Lang is the unevenness of tone. I found the film wavered uneasily between occasional moments of suspense-thriller surrounded by light-hearted comedic interplay. Hitchcock totally reversed the ratio, using comic relief to occasionally pace the suspense. There is a reason this film is unknown. It didn't serve or propel anybody's career or reputation, and is forgotten because it's a surprisingly bad film from such a pedigreed group.