Man Hunt 1941

     Captain Alan Thorndike is a big game hunter vacationing in Bavaria.  He goes out into the woods and he has Adolf Hitler in his gun sight.  He plans to see if it would be possible to shoot him but he intends not to pull the trigger.  He is captured by Nazi troops, beaten and left for dead in the woods.  He escapes and goes back to London as a stowaway on a Danish steamer.  In London, German agents hound him but a woman,  Jerry Stokes tries to help him.  Alan wants his attorney to arrange for Jerry to receive money after he leaves London but she refuses.

     I wondered how Thorndike could think he could get this close to Hitler without being discovered and captured?  He endangers himself and also those he meets after he escapes.  I wonder if the outcome was worth this adventure?  3* (This movie is OK)

105 min, Drama directed by Fritz Lang with Walter Pidgeon, Joan Bennett, George Sanders, John Carradine, Roddy McDowall, Ludwig Stossel, Heather Thatcher.

Note:  Imdb 7.4 out of 10, 90% critic 75% audience on Rotten Tomatoes, Amazon 3.9* out of 5* with 77 reviews.

Special Note:  The director, Fritz Lang fled Germany to Paris in 1933 rather than accept an offer from Joseph Goebbels to make Nazi propaganda films.  The next year he came to America.  This is the first film out of four that Joan Bennett made with Lang.  She also made The Woman in the Window and Scarlet Street.  She partnered with Lang in company Diana Productions for those films.