Ben Stiller was awesome, and the special effects were just...special! Most of the other actor/actresses were really good, especially notable was Owen Wilson, surprisingly in an uncredited role despite his recent success. Dick Van Dyke and Robin...
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Ben Stiller was awesome, and the special effects were just...special! Most of the other actor/actresses were really good, especially notable was Owen Wilson, surprisingly in an uncredited role despite his recent success. Dick Van Dyke and Robin Williams were both exceptional. Micky Rooney was the only part of the movie that didn't impress me, in fact he rather creeped my out. The plot was quite far out, but that is nothing unusual these days. Besides the movies shouldn't be more like life...life should be more like the movies! You go to the movies to escape from life, the troublesome trend to make movies realistic or more like life is balderdash. That is not what a movie is meant for, except in a documentary. You go to a movie to escape from life.

Orson Welles is Brilliant as Franz Kindler an escaped Nazi who has found refuge as a teacher in a boys school in a small New England town. Since there are no pictures of him in existance and he destroyed all the evidence of his crimes he can be...
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Orson Welles is Brilliant as Franz Kindler an escaped Nazi who has found refuge as a teacher in a boys school in a small New England town. Since there are no pictures of him in existance and he destroyed all the evidence of his crimes he can be found only when Edward G. Robinson covinces the authorities to let a low level official Nazi who was a friend of Kindler escape from custody so he can be followed. Much of the Way it is Robinsons wife who tracks him in order to keep him from being suspicious. When Meinke(the man being tracked by Robinson) arrives at the home, he meets not Charles Rankin, the alias of Franz Kindler, but Mary Longstreet, played by Loretta Young who informs Meinke she is to marry Charles at 6p.m. that evening and asks him to wait. Whereupon he leaves and is never seen again. In a long and convuluted dramatic movie Charles Rankin eventually reveals himself first to Mr. Wilson(Edward G. Robinson)who finally convinces the brother of Mary and eventually her father and finally everyone else in the town leading to a scene in the clock tower at the end with the three big

Shades of "To Hell and Back", the Audie Murphy Story. Except this is the story of the most decorated unit in the Army and the members of the cast are all survivors of action. With the exception of the star of the show Van Johnson who...
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Shades of "To Hell and Back", the Audie Murphy Story. Except this is the story of the most decorated unit in the Army and the members of the cast are all survivors of action. With the exception of the star of the show Van Johnson who plays the Texan and officer put in charge of the Japanese unit before they leave for Europe. I saw the movie three times before I found out the guys were combat veterans in addition to acting the parts, they were very convincing in the parts. It was especially interesting to watch the officer played by Van Johnson grow as he first had disdain for the Nissei who he thought of as "Japs" at the beginning and by the end of the movie got into a fist fight with one of the other Texan G.I.s for using that term against his "Buddha-head" buddies. Even deferring decision-making responsibilities to the first officer promotied within tthe Japanese-American squad telling him "it's your call Sam."