For those in love with this film it is in the public domain and I picked it up through Amazon on a 50 movie pack "Dark Crimes" set for as I recall around 20 dollars, worth it if you want some low end noir with a few gems included. Well let me say, I have seen worse Noir, much worse so I'm giving this a 5, but to call this a masterpiece is definitely someones opinion, and it isn't mine. It has a lot to do with Paul Henreid, was it only me, but I just do not like this actor. He was my least favorite character in Casablanca, he just seemed irritating, I also saw him in a yarn about pre war Poland with Ida Lapino and that was horrid. So I guess when I'm watching this, trying to understand what he is saying through the really thick accent, I end up saying to myself this is kind of a lame movie. OK the scar is on the wrong side, that really isn't used much in the movie so I'm not sure what the point of that was, but this guy never saw the Doctor so how does he know he's going to have that same thick accent? I mean he saw him briefly before he killed him but that was after he sliced his face open (on the wrong side, so yeah this guy is a genius).This guy is a real idiot, he botched the job in the beginning really really badly, I mean was I supposed to think this guy was slick? And that thick accent whatever kind it is (French? Hungarian, who cares, its irritating for a lead the whole movie in an American crime movie). I had it on a long time in the background it was just really boring, Give me an American playing the lead in Noir anytime, unless it's a foreign language made Noir than I can accept that. 5 of 10 and I'm being generous out of respect to all the ones here who love this film. Even the women here didn't do anything for me, they were tepid at best. Maybe if he killed the cleaning woman I would have been giving this more praise, he should have killed a lot more people, yeah thats it, kill, kill, kill. All this guy did was run, run, run, and smack his woman around (once, zzzz).
Review of Hollow Triumph
