It always surprised me how many people used to come late for the pictures, particularly in the suburbs where two movies, plus a newsreel was always obligatory.
For "The Price of Fear", both writer and director were well aware of that fact, so they didn't bother to put any effort at all into the first reel - or the second reel either. The dialogue can only be described as totally uninteresting chatter which the actors delivered without any inflections at all.
Suddenly, around feel three, all this inept and thoroughly boring clap=trap was thrown away and the story started to get into stride, And once into stride, the writing, the direction and the acting improved by leaps and bounds.
In fact, the only aspect of the movie that was consistently good from first to last, was Irving Glassberg's photography.
For "The Price of Fear", both writer and director were well aware of that fact, so they didn't bother to put any effort at all into the first reel - or the second reel either. The dialogue can only be described as totally uninteresting chatter which the actors delivered without any inflections at all.
Suddenly, around feel three, all this inept and thoroughly boring clap=trap was thrown away and the story started to get into stride, And once into stride, the writing, the direction and the acting improved by leaps and bounds.
In fact, the only aspect of the movie that was consistently good from first to last, was Irving Glassberg's photography.