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World for Ransom (1954)
8 out of 9 people found the following comment useful :-
Sets The Stage For Kiss Me Deadly(1955), 24 marzo 2000
Author: marquis de cinema da Boston, MA
World For Ransom(1954) is an odd item from filmography of Robert Aldrich as it is not as well known as some of his other movies. This is an overlooked movie that would provide a sketch for Kiss Me Deadly(1955). Dan Duryea gives a very good performance as well as Patric Knowles and Marian Carr. The plot of the film recalls The Third Man(1949) because its also about a friend of the protagonist who may be villainous and the woman who torn between her husband and her friend. It is well paced and filled with action and intrigue. World For Ransom(1954) is an exciting movie by a man who would later do terrific films like Kiss Me Deadly(1955) and The Dirty Dozen(1967).
6 out of 7 people found the following comment useful :-
Rather enjoyable Atomic Age thriller, 7 giugno 2005
Author: Chris Gaskin da Derby, England
I taped World For Ransom when BBC2 screened it during the early hours recently. This is the time when they usually show these sort of movies and I found this one quite good.
Set in Singapore, a group of people plot to kidnap a nuclear scientist who is one of only three people in the whole world who knows how to detonate the H-Bomb. We get to see plenty of people being killed, especially during the final scenes. There is also blackmail, double crossing and punch-ups.
The cast includes Dan Duryea, Patric Knowles (How Green Was My Valley, The Wolf Man), Gene Lockhart (Lost In Space star June's dad) and Nigel Bruce (Dr Watson from the Basil Rathbone Sherlock Holmes movies) in his last movie.
World For Ransom is quite good and is worth checking out.
Rating: 3 stars out of 5.
Very cheap but not without its pleasures, 30 giugno 2008
Author: TrevorAclea da London, England
Robert Aldrich's 1954 quickie World for Ransom is far from essential viewing, but if you do find yourself in the same room when it's on TV, chances are you'll find yourself sticking with it despite its faults. A cheap studio backlot picture until the finale when the film actually goes outdoors (though not as far as Singapore), it doesn't always make a virtue of its economy and a couple of the bit players are strikingly dreadful actors but within its claustrophobic sets it does throw in a few memorable visuals and it's satisfyingly undemanding supporting feature fare. Offering a rare lead for Dan Duryea as a soldier of fortune in the far East suspected of involvement in the kidnap of a nuclear scientist, the in-jokes around his 50s China Smith TV show are all but incomprehensible today and the banter isn't as witty as the writers think (and the cast know it and play on the fact), yet that lends it a strangeness that makes it stand out from other 50s poverty row pictures. While Marion Carr is more than a tad awkward as the not-so-fatale femme, the supporting cast isn't without merit, with veterans Nigel Bruce, Gene Lockhart, Reginald Denny, Douglas Dumbrille and Arthur "cheaper than Barry Fitzgerald" Shields adding a few familiar faces while the most interesting performance comes from Patric Knowles: not because he's giving an outstanding display of great acting but because, to all intents and purposes, he's imitating his old Adventures of Robin Hood star Errol Flynn, and doing so rather well as an ex-British officer who has gone down in the world and is keeping very bad company. It's utterly disposable stuff, yet strangely watchable with it.
Pay The Two Dollars, 16 ottobre 2007
Author: writers_reign da London, England
*** This comment may contain spoilers ***
It may be just as well that Robert Aldrich is uncredited as director here because it would add little to his CV in terms of lustre. It's a ho-hum caper movie in an exotic-on-paper location, in this case a Singapore that makes no mention of Raffles hotel and was possibly inspired by and remains a poor-man's Macao, which was shot by Joe Von Sternberg around the same time. The slightly bizarre cast - Dan Duryea, Patrick Holt, Gene Hersholt, Reginald Denny, Arthur Shields, Nigel Bruce - contrive to seem as if they're acting in different films and the 'topical' theme of Atomic power now seems terribly dated. Just about watchable as a Late, Late Show offering but that's about the best you can give it, unless, of course, you're a Strother Martin completist for he turns up yet again in an uncredited 'bit'.
4 out of 11 people found the following comment useful :-
lousy, 26 aprile 2003
Author: hsalzber da de
by the time this movie was screened, film noir was beginning to deteriorate..the sets looked fake(especially singapore), the camera angles obnoxious, the dialogue trite....all in all the people became too big and the universe too small....the characters dealt themselves the bad deck instead of fate...thus you have arguments, bickering and altogether ugly people...in earlier noir, the people were likeable but just couldn't escape their destiny..here there's nothing to like and we are glad they end up losers...sorry, but this film has all the makings of a turkey.
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