Man Hunt (1941)
A Film by Fritz Lang
DVD9 | ISO+MDS | NTSC 4:3 (720x480) | 01:42:23 | 6,31 Gb
Audio: English AC3 2.0 @ 192 Kbps | Subs: English, French, Spanish
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Fritz Lang was in peak form as a Hollywood studio director when he made Man Hunt (1941), a terrific thriller whose title, like so many things Langian, cuts two ways. First, Capt. Alan Thorndike (Walter Pidgeon), celebrated English big-game hunter, is caught near Berchtesgaden just as he's drawn a bead on Adolf Hitler. Thorndike claims he had no intention to shoot, it was just "a sporting stalk" - a notion mystifying to his Nazi captors, who aim to parade him before the world as a British government assassin. There follows a harrowing escape, in a forest primeval straight out of Die Nibelungen, and now it's Thorndike who's the quarry, pursued across Europe and home to foggy London - not that he finds much refuge there.