Review of The Crowded Sky

I was surprised at how bad this movie is. I grant that it was 1960 and I'm a child of the 60s and understand that movies had only really been exploring disasters and special effects for a handful of years. But, there isn't any excuse for the poor acting and deplorable writing that went into this movie. It's as if the director, Joseph Pevney wrote this movie off before he ever started filming it. Granted, he wasn't known as one of Hollywood's premier directors but he could have at least TRIED to make it work. The acting would have been better with cardboard cutouts. That's a shame considering that it has Efrem Zimbalist, Jr. in it. Kennan Wynn could also have done a much better job but he seemed to just be going through the motions like the rest of the actors. He was the most unflashy Hollywood playboy, Hollywood playboy character that has ever been portrayed on film. For an actor with so much range his work was probably the most disappointing to me. The "thought sequences" and flashbacks were disjointed and most of them failed to contribute anything to the overall story. I gave it a "2" because it wasn't "The Beast of Yucca Flats" (1961), which is quite possibly the worst film ever, and I think Yucca is the only film I've ever given a 1-star rating to.