Walter Pidgeon News

If he were remembered only for his German films, Fritz Lang would still be counted a great director, but he also made a string of exceptional pictures when he came to Hollywood after fleeing the Nazis.

Here's a noirish spy yarn about a British hunter who has Adolf Hitler in his crosshairs, only to be captured by the Gestapo before he can pull the trigger.

On the eve of World War II, big-game hunter Alan Thorndike stalks Adolf Hitler. Things go wrong, and Thorndike becomes the quarry in a secret hunt through wilderness and city.

Well, in the case of two fascinating films that have just made their DVD debuts, they actually saved the the rest of Hitler from some people who wanted to do him in.

THE MOVIE: The 1941 film Man Hunt sounds like the kind of thing made just to give trivia buffs something to add to their repertoire.

AN English sportsman , dressed in the full gentleman-hunter uniform of corduroy jacket and puttees, moves silently through a dark Bavarian forest, a high-powered rifle in hand.

Habitually overpraised science-fiction classic, whose Freudian pretensions hope for intellectual stature on the basis of Walter Pidgeon's professorial windiness in expounding them.

PROOF is a good example of a typical glossy MGM romantic comedy-drama from the '30s, starring an attractive quartet of actors: Myrna Loy, Franchot Tone, Rosalind Russell, and Walter Pidgeon.

'The world will never forget the Ziegfeld Follies," proclaims William Powell in MGM's sumptuous 1946 musical revue, "Ziegfeld Follies." Sadly, it would appear that the world has a very short memory.

The Appeal: When screenwriters give a hero a career, it's often architecture. Think Walter Pidgeon in Mrs.