Review of No Way Out

No Way Out (1950)
1/10
Heavy handed Mankiewicz makes a stinker
24 December 2012
Warning: Spoilers
A cartoonish movie by left winger Mankiewicz.

He lays it on so thick the movie becomes a joke at many points.

This lame attempt at a movie comes across like a fifth rate stage play.

The dialogue is tedious, overlong at several points, especially where one character talks too long without any relief in the form of response from the character he is talking to.

An example is the scene where the head of the hospital goes on and on and on in an early scene in his office with the white head doctor.

Widmark gives a cartoonish, cornball performance.

Linda Darnell makes the most of the material she is given.
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