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Tuesday, May 6, 2014

Captain Scarface (1953)

An American film noir thriller directed by Paul Guilfoyle.
A hotel in South America is the scene of multiple shootings as one man tries to get paid for illegal business, a man on the run from a landlord after sleeping with the landlord's wife shows up shot and a nuclear scientist meets his daughter. The remaining characters board a ship for the United States, only to find that it has a bomb on it.
The plot was complex, yet coherent. A little bit of espionage and hidden identities went on, but still the characters were good and were provided with back-stories. The only thing missing was some style. I would have liked to see some creative use of the camera to really make it great. Special effects were obviously not a plausible option in the era in which this film was made. The video and audio showed their age, but when a film is interesting, those types of things can easily be overlooked. This is another very watchable old public domain film. I'm rating it adequate. Who cares that the director's name sounds like oil used on a grandmother... (Metalocalypse) whatever.