Word: losey
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...psychopathic murderer of children has been shifted to a U.S. city in 1951 and altered in some other details-almost always for the worse-the new picture's close imitation of the German version's camera setups and sequence of shots suggests that Director Joseph Losey must have worn out a print of the original in the process of rehearsing himself...
...picture is also a decided step forward for Director Joseph Losey, who made the raggedly effective The Lawless. Here, with a feeling for understatement as well as wallop, he shows more assured control of a naturalistic style that makes his best scenes look as if they had been caught by a candid camera...
Though the movie is oversimplified, occasionally awkward, given to coincidence and saddled with a hand-me-down musical score, its imperfections seem trivial alongside its rough-hewn virtues. Using unvarnished photography on the streets, interiors and people of real California towns, Director Joseph Losey has given the picture a startling look of reality. For the setting of his manhunt's climax, he takes imaginative advantage of the stony, rolling wastes of a vast gold-dredging field. His mob scenes crackle with a spontaneous movement and raw vitality usually found only in bang-up newsreel footage...