I'm having a mini-Hitchcock season this month watching some of the lesser-known films that I've not seen for a while. This one apart from the stupendous ending atop the Statue of Liberty was something of a disappointment and featured one of his least charismatic casts. Robert Cummings is just too lightweight to engage one (and although he appears in a later Hitchcock picture, "Dial M for Murder", all he has to be in that one is a lightweight actor). The only character actor of note is Otto Kruger, but there is not enough of him to help.
One bit that I had forgotten was the hero's hiding out while on the run with a group of circus sideshow freaks which included pair of Siamese twins (not real) which seem to be haunting me this week (see the next entry).
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