Well this film could have been made by the likes of Mitchell Leison, Delbert or Daniel Mann, and certainly not the great Michael Curtiz. Of course Joan Crawford would have been a great help, who she was used to work with Curtiz, and Alan Ladd is far from his best here, in this domestic drama, not even thriller. Forget THIS GUN FOR HIRE or SHANE. I prefered him in THE CARPETBAGGERS, his last movie, actually. This one is not lousy, not even boring, but predictable, however the atmosphere is not that bad. I guess the Curtiz's experience. This is not the Curtiz's film that I will remind the most, his Warner Bros years were far far away.
Review of The Man in the Net
