23 Paces to Baker Street

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Blobbo X With Grant or Stewart in lead (instead of Van "Woodblock" Johnson) and maybe Bernard Herrmann on score and maybe Hitchcock directing, this 5 star movie. (Not, though.) Rated 3.5/5 Stars •  Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 08/22/24 Full Review Chris D Great story about a man who lost his sight a year or two before the story begins and is feeling sorry for himself... and then he discovers a plot to kidnap someone and finds that no one really believes him. He feels compelled to investigate, using his heightened other senses. His ex-fiancée wants to help, but he is still so frustrated that initially he rebuffs her. Plenty of low-key mystery initially, then the pace hots up and it gets very exciting. The romance makes some progress, too! Also, a great chance to see London in 1956... what a different world! Rated 5/5 Stars •  Rated 5 out of 5 stars 07/08/24 Full Review j F Has interesting parallels to Rear Window by Hitchcock. It's got suspense as well! Rated 4/5 Stars •  Rated 4 out of 5 stars 06/28/24 Full Review Audience Member Good, not great. Definitely some mystery here, and the direction is reminiscent of Hitchcock in the 1950s. Good finale. Rated 3.5/5 Stars •  Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 01/21/23 Full Review Audience Member I enjoyed the character played by Van Johnson. I initially viewed it to see Natalie Norwich. I was captivated by her in an old TV series Palladin when I saw her in jeans. lol I guess it is mainly reminiscence I was after, but his portrayal of a blind man moved me. Rated 3.5/5 Stars •  Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 02/19/23 Full Review Audience Member In IMDB user Schwenkstar's Hollywood Giallo (+ Its Others) list, they state that this film pulls "the same trick Argento uses frequently in his films: a character sees/hears something but misinterprets it, misleading the character as well as the audience." Based on the Philip MacDonald book Warrant for X, this film also takes cues from Rear Window, placing a differently-abled person against criminals that came after them in the dark. This time, the hero is Philip Hannon (Van Johnson), a blind playwright who believes that the partial conversation he's heard is related to a possible kidnapping that hasn't even happened yet. With the police disbelieving him, he is thrust into the role of the giallo hero: a stranger in a strange land and one even stranger because he only knows the steps from building to building and will never see this new skyline, a place that he's escaped to in avoidance of his depression over his loss of sight. Those simmering feelings of a bleak future have led him to leave Jean (Vera Miles, who would soon appear in another essential giallo inspiring film, Psycho) behind in America, but she's come to England which puts him even more off his hermetic path. Director Henry Hathaway is probably best known for True Grit and The Sons of Katie Elder, but he put together a fun mystery here, a film that exists before the krimini and giallo yet has many of the things we'd later see in much more lurid tales. Rated 2/5 Stars •  Rated 2 out of 5 stars 02/06/23 Full Review Read all reviews

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