The Hunted

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Russ G Tries to be noir but it barely qualifies. Slow pacing; easily 10 minutes could have been cut from the 83 minute running time and it would have made an improvement. Nothing really happens for the whole film, then the mystery is dropped in the audience's lap. It's all razzle dazzle; nothing makes any sense. It tries to get by on a hard-boiled detective and good-lookin' dame. Rated 1.5/5 Stars •  Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars 01/26/25 Full Review Audience Member In this detective story, a private eye must send his fiancee to prison as he truly believes that she was involved in a bank robbery. Unfortunately, she is innocent. Still she serves her time. Upon her release someone frames her for murder. The detective is in quite a quandary until the real criminal is found. The woman finally returns to her beloved private eye. More romantic melodrama than 'noir' 'The Hunted' still shines as 'Belita ' the "Ice Queen" who was in the 1936 Olympic games as a figure skater for England ; serves up a great cat and mouse performance as Laura Mead . B-film crime story ably directed by Jack Bernhard. The Hunted is lit on 'noir' but is still a great Crime, Drama and Film-Noir in the end . Highly entertaining . Rated 4/5 Stars •  Rated 4 out of 5 stars 01/14/23 Full Review stu b Shifty-eyed blonde Laura Mead, fresh out of prison after a four-year stretch for a diamond robbery that she claims she knew nothing about, is followed from a bus station by world-weary cop Johnny Saxon. Their connection? Saxon--her ex-boyfriend!--just happens to be the cop who arrested her. Eventually, a murder is committed, the mystery deepens--was she framed by the real thief, as she has always insisted?--and the flames of romance, despite their reservations, are rekindled. The acting is only fair--as Laura, Belita (a figure skater by trade, hence the long skating sequence smack in the middle) delivers a flat, one-note performance, and Preston Foster's hard-bitten lawman is only marginally better. Jack Bernhard's direction might satisfy noir fans, but so little happens that Allied Artists should have dubbed this one "The Stunted"--it's one of those flicks that starts off strongly, then isn't allowed room to grow. Rated 2/5 Stars •  Rated 2 out of 5 stars 11/28/18 Full Review Read all reviews

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