Repeatedly bullied, and then ultimately burglarised, beaten, and his home ransacked by a group of thugs, Bentley plots revenge. He kidnaps the ringleader, poisons him to paralyze him, puts him into a trunk, and plans to dispose of him, while still alive, in a muddy swamp. But nothing goes according to plans: visitors intruding at his house, bad weather, and one final (and wholly unbelievable) twist stand in his way of disposing of the guy in the trunk.
Shades of Poe's Premature Burial are mixed with several ideas which could have influenced Hitchcock's Rope, and it all starts out well, with a well done scene of the victim's home being ransacked, and the suspense of the poisoning scene- but the film fizzles away after the first half, and the entire thing is capped with a ridiculously contrived happy ending; a flat finish to a film which, in the hands of Hitchcock, might have been a classic.
Good performance by the dog, too.
Shades of Poe's Premature Burial are mixed with several ideas which could have influenced Hitchcock's Rope, and it all starts out well, with a well done scene of the victim's home being ransacked, and the suspense of the poisoning scene- but the film fizzles away after the first half, and the entire thing is capped with a ridiculously contrived happy ending; a flat finish to a film which, in the hands of Hitchcock, might have been a classic.
Good performance by the dog, too.