Lovesusti The Worst Film Ever

Console best movie i've ever seen.

Baseshment I like movies that are aware of what they are selling... without [any] greater aspirations than to make people laugh and that's it.

Juana what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.

dallesmac As a huge fan of Budd Boetticher's Randolph Scott westerns, I really looked forward to this 1956 thriller. Though it certainly held my attention, the movie was a disappointment. The tension it managed to create early on as Wendell Corey escapes from a prison trustee farm really went slack--done in by a lousy script. Boetticher keeps things moving, helped immensely by Lucien Ballard's terrific black-and-white camera work. But I don't get the feeling the director was very interested, aside from the scenes focusing on Corey. Other reviewers have rightly praised the scary, yet oddly sympathetic, character that Corey creates here. It's just too bad the script was so perfunctory. Rhonda Fleming seems right as police detective Joseph Cotten's wife, Lila, but her role is so poorly conceived (and she becomes so annoying), that I lost all interest and sympathy for her. The other big negative is Joseph Cotten, at 50+, too old for the police detective. Even worse, you can't watch him without seeing Joseph Cotten; he doesn't create a character and his movements seem all wrong as a cop. Great 1950's LA locales, though. And worth catching for Corey's performance.

mark.waltz Wendell Corey is perfectly cast as the personality absent loan shark clerk who botches a robbery that ends up with police officer Joseph Cotten accidentally killing his wife. On his way to prison, Corey looks Cotten's wife (Rhonda Fleming) right in the eye and promises he will venge his own wife's death. Three years go by and Corey in prison is made a trustee, thus engineering his escape. The bodies pile up as Cotten learns that Corey has vowed to kill Fleming (an eye for an eye) and tries to prevent his frustrated spouse from becoming Corey's next victim.Going down the territory of some earlier crime dramas and film noirs (there is a difference), this bottom of the bill feature is a gritty and non-pretentious view of the desperate hours after Corey's goals are revealed. There doesn't seem to be any way out but a predictable conclusion, but that really doesn't matter. As in the similar "B" sleeper "The Night Holds Terror", this film takes some interesting twists and turns, provides some real chills as potential victims of Corey's insanity show genuine fear. Having been beyond miscast as the romantic lead in such films as "The File on Thelma Jordan", "The Furies" and "Harriet Craig", the usually bland Corey shows more dimension here as a psychopathic nut job than in those dramatic potboilers which paired him opposite Barbara Stanwyck and Joan Crawford. A svelte Alan Hale Jr. ("Gilligan's Island") and a young John Beradino ("General Hospital's" long-time patriarch, Dr. Steve Hardy) are instantly recognizable as Cotten's co-workers.This is a must for lovers of gritty crime drama and rises above what could easily have been an hour long episode of a 50's TV cop show.

simonqbb (5.5 out of 10!) Fairly forgettable for the most part, but still sort of interesting as an artifact of a 1950s B movie thriller/police procedural. The problems: Joseph Cotten (whom I often like) isn't particularly good here, looking rather tired and perhaps a little disengaged; the character of his wife, played by Rhonda Fleming, is considerably shrill and annoying, to the point of being very nearly unsympathetic; the story itself is considerably simple; and the climax is rather weak and too abrupt. Still, Wendell Corey is quite convincing as psychopath Leon "Foggy" Poole, and it's fun to see some of the settings, styles, and conventions of mid-50s Los Angeles. (Future Gilligan's Island resident Alan Hale Jr. is also on hand.) Budd Boetticher's direction may be closer to very competent than anything else, but it's not bad by any means. Overall, nothing like a must-see, but this may still add some B movie color (not literally, it's black and white) to your classic film viewing.

Neil Doyle Budd Boetticher was getting his "Director's Day" salute on TCM when I watched this little known thriller starring Joseph COTTEN, RHONDA FLEMING and WENDELL COREY.It's Corey who walks off with the film in what is really the central role as a crazed killer, angry when detective Cotten and his police officers accidentally kill his wife when trying to get him. He vows revenge when he's found guilty of a bank robbery where he was an accomplice, and the rest of the tale involves vengeance and a final comeuppance for Corey.Joseph COTTEN gives only a middling performance, almost phoning in his job as though he knows his colorless role isn't worth much effort. The same for RHONDA FLEMING as his selfish wife, whose sole contribution is a shapely figure and a pretty face obviously ready for many a close-up.What raises this above the level of an average B-film is Corey's nuanced performance as a nerdy man who appears almost sympathetic at times and chillingly ruthless when crossed. JOHN LARCH is especially good as an ex service buddy who used to taunt him for his lack of skill with a rifle. It's Corey's work in the film that puts it into a higher category and makes it a psychological crime melodrama worth watching.Budd Boetticher's no-nonsense approach delivers a solid bit of film-making that lasts a mere one hour and thirteen minutes.Note: The lower case for the name Joseph is either the fault of my keyboard or IMDb--I've been capitalizing it but it comes out each time as lower case for some unknown reason.