There it was Joel McRea escaping hitmen by turning on the bath and exiting through the hotel window, round a ledge past obligatory blinking and fizzing neon sign, and into his girlfriend's bedroom. This version is more sinister and prolonged, and takes place in a rainstorm.
But why put the plug in the bath? It will overflow and alert the hitmen. Happens over and over again.
Apparently this film has been cut, and explanatory scenes have gone. Wells as Haki (with a moustache) mumbles and I can hardly hear a word he says.
The scenes on the freighter look good, especially the silent, embarrassed meals as Cotten wonders which of his fellow passengers is a Nazi agent. Unfortunately the lighting is dim and lines are blurred and method mumbling continues. All the male passengers look alike and I had great trouble working out which was which and understanding their dialogue.
The "method" works when Cotten is trying to recruit help and the passengers just keep burbling about their own concerns. The character who started spouting socialism to annoy his snobbish wife is OK - and AUDIBLE.
Perhaps I was watching a fuzzy print with awful sound on the TV (there was no explanatory voiceover). The story ends abruptly as Graham is reunited with his wife, sort of. I hope Colonel Haki was not mortally wounded.
Annoyingly, subtitles were not available.
But why put the plug in the bath? It will overflow and alert the hitmen. Happens over and over again.
Apparently this film has been cut, and explanatory scenes have gone. Wells as Haki (with a moustache) mumbles and I can hardly hear a word he says.
The scenes on the freighter look good, especially the silent, embarrassed meals as Cotten wonders which of his fellow passengers is a Nazi agent. Unfortunately the lighting is dim and lines are blurred and method mumbling continues. All the male passengers look alike and I had great trouble working out which was which and understanding their dialogue.
The "method" works when Cotten is trying to recruit help and the passengers just keep burbling about their own concerns. The character who started spouting socialism to annoy his snobbish wife is OK - and AUDIBLE.
Perhaps I was watching a fuzzy print with awful sound on the TV (there was no explanatory voiceover). The story ends abruptly as Graham is reunited with his wife, sort of. I hope Colonel Haki was not mortally wounded.
Annoyingly, subtitles were not available.