Hunt the Man Down
1950
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3/10. Does this film make any sense?! planktonrules 19 September 2015. Ruth Roman is stuck starring in a rather dopey movie. The acting is generally good and the atmosphere also quite good...but the plot is just stupid. The film begins with a man being re-tried in court for murdering his wife.
34 User reviews. 12 Critic reviews. Photos 15. Top cast. Edit. Richard Todd. Richard Trevelyan. Ruth Roman. Shelley Carnes. Mercedes McCambridge. Liza McStringer. Zachary Scott.
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- Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
- King Vidor
- 1951-06-25
A rare attempt at film noir from an unexpected source, Lightning Strikes Twice (1951) is a not entirely successful, but nevertheless fascinating film that boasts deft directorial touches from the great King Vidor, and a compelling performance by the intense Mercedes McCambridge.
- King Vidor, Felix Jacoves, Frank Mattison
- Ruth Roman
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Directed by pioneering auteur King Vidor in the full flowering of his overheated late-career style, this delirious noir-melodrama stars Ruth Roman as Shelley Carnes, a New York stage actor who travels to a Texas dude ranch for her health.
King Vidor. Synopsis. Sent to a dude ranch in the west to recover her health, a New York actress falls in love with a ranch owner recently acquitted of the murder of his wife. Recommendations. No...
Popular reviews. More. Review by pirateneckbeard ★★½ 10. It's a very curious film noir with this fish out of water on vacation no less in a dry local of a dude ranch and is played by Ruth Roman (Shelley Carnes) who randomly gets sucked into these locals lives full of money, land and lust and succumbs to be involved.
Aug 5, 2019 · Reviewed by Dennis Schwartz. A muddled b/w drama, attempting vainly to be film noir, is based on a novel by Margaret Echard and written by Lenore Coffee. It’s a by the numbers directed effort by King Vidor (“Ruby Gentry”/”War and Peace”). It generates little tension and interest.
