Word: hunted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hunt (Walter Pidgeon, George Sanders, Joan Bennett; TIME, June...
...Hunt (Walter Pidgeon, George Sanders, Joan Bennett; TIME, June...
...hunt lasted 78 hours...
From that juncture through to the finish Man Hunt slinks artfully along its melodramatic way. In post-Munich Britain, the hunter has to take to the woods to evade death by the Nazis as well as threatened extradition to Germany to stand trial for the alleged crime. At film's end, with Britain at war, the hunter, armed with another sporting rifle, returns for the kill. As he parachutes to German earth from a British bomber an off-screen voice warns that it may take weeks, months, years, but the hunter will get his game...
...Hunt is more than just a thriller. Without ranting or tiresome speechmaking, it states the case for Democracy v. Naziism with intelligent restraint. The conflict between Hunter Pidgeon and Pursuer Sanders, the Gestapo chief, puts a man of good will up against a tough guy who thinks that might makes right. Director Lang (M. Fury), thrice-wounded Austrian veteran of World War I and a fugitive from Nazidom, knows that conflict intimately. Because he also knows how to tell a story with a camera, Man Hunt has the kind of polished wallop that Hollywood likes to talk about...