An exciting action movie with Marian Marsh (as Judy Grayson, the sexiest of the nurses), Wilcoxon as the replacement physician, and Welden as Gaffney; its topic is a jailbreak, with flood and typhoid merely stirring up the mayhem, so their role is only in setting up the jailbreak, and of course in motivating the stressed characters. While watching it, I thought this looks like a movie by Cruze, which indeed it is, and it has the prodigious craftsmanship; even if it might be abridged, I believe its present version, which I have found satisfying, providing enough of what it was intended to provide, is faithful to the longer movie's quality. What some might mean is that this cool action movie had enough plot for a TV series. As such, it's an unexpectedly modern roller-coaster. If one would wish for more, it's the way you wish for more of the best things. But Cruze's movie might be the prototype for an entire genre, the one movie to give an idea of what can be achieved. The director is one of the most unjustly underrated. He deserves another reputation, and the audiences dismiss his work because they haven't been taught otherwise.
The leading character looked best in his 2nd shape, after he's forced out of his _blasé reticence and initial gloominess, sullen and sulking demeanor, beginning with the setting free of Gaffney, at the dialed door. Once wired, he makes a good physical role.
Jackpot has a naughty joke about giving himself physical exams.
So, an awesome jailbreak movie, with a delightful cast, including the supporting roles and bit parts (like the 3rd nurse, who looks well in this part), and action trademarked by a valuable director. It's a dignified movie, with a cast of people who knew their trade.
To me, it seemed a compelling action movie, the lead has been the strongman of a few prestigious classy early epics. The cast is almost ferociously vivid and powerful, and it puts one on the tracks of many players. The previous reviewers have been endemically unfair to this movie, perhaps from being immunized like the inmates shown here. This jailbreak yarn doesn't lack most of the things asked for by the reviewers, because it wasn't even supposed to need them. You are shown distilled action, this is the genre. And as such, it works satisfyingly, like with other works of the same director it's all sensation; Hellman believed that any exposition is artificial, and unneeded.
The leading character looked best in his 2nd shape, after he's forced out of his _blasé reticence and initial gloominess, sullen and sulking demeanor, beginning with the setting free of Gaffney, at the dialed door. Once wired, he makes a good physical role.
Jackpot has a naughty joke about giving himself physical exams.
So, an awesome jailbreak movie, with a delightful cast, including the supporting roles and bit parts (like the 3rd nurse, who looks well in this part), and action trademarked by a valuable director. It's a dignified movie, with a cast of people who knew their trade.
To me, it seemed a compelling action movie, the lead has been the strongman of a few prestigious classy early epics. The cast is almost ferociously vivid and powerful, and it puts one on the tracks of many players. The previous reviewers have been endemically unfair to this movie, perhaps from being immunized like the inmates shown here. This jailbreak yarn doesn't lack most of the things asked for by the reviewers, because it wasn't even supposed to need them. You are shown distilled action, this is the genre. And as such, it works satisfyingly, like with other works of the same director it's all sensation; Hellman believed that any exposition is artificial, and unneeded.