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Rating: 6.5 stars

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NWI WWII hitler austria London England hunt chase espionage Spies murder

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Man Hunt (1941)

Directed by Fritz Lang

Thriller | Suspense | War

Overview

Shortly before the start of WW2, renowned British big-game hunter Alan Thorndike, vacationing in Bavaria, has Hitler in his gun sight. He is captured, beaten, left for dead, and escapes back to London where he is hounded by Nazi agents and aided by a young woman.

Rated NR | Length 105 minutes

Actors

Walter Pidgeon | Joan Bennett | George Sanders | John Carradine | Roddy McDowall | Ludwig Stössel | Heather Thatcher | Frederick Worlock | Roger Imhof | Holmes Herbert | Egon Brecher | Eily Malyon | Herbert Evans | Charles Bennett | Frank Benson | Ted Billings | Walter Bonn | Sven Hugo Borg | Cyril Delevanti | Carl Ekberg | Richard Fraser | Arno Frey | Douglas Gerrard | William Haade | Keith Hitchcock | Olaf Hytten | Hans Joby | Kurt Kreuger | Bruce Lester | Adolf E. Licho | Lester Matthews | Virginia McDowall | Adolph Milar | Carl Ottmar | Lucien Prival | Otto Reichow | John Rogers | Clifford Severn | Robert R. Stephenson | Frederick Vogeding | Wilhelm von Brincken | Bobby Hale

Viewing History (seen 1 time)

Viewing Notes

The opening scene, which starts with a great crane shot that swoops down through trees, had promise, but the story gets mired down during the second half, devolving into a cat and mouse game in England without much tension, and ending with a propagandistic call to action.

Joan Bennett, while beautiful as a common Londoner, has an atrocious British accent, which takes away from her otherwise great performance.

Still, it’s an interesting movie with a creative premise, even if it doesn’t fully deliver. It’s also great to see John Carradine playing a Nazi agent, and a young Roddy McDowall as a cabin boy on a tramp steamer that Pidgeon stows away on.

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