The Man in the Net

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The Man in the Net

Screen title
Directed by Michael Curtiz
Produced by Walter Mirisch
Alan Ladd
Written by Story:
Hugh Wheeler
Screenplay:
Reginald Rose
Starring Alan Ladd
Carolyn Jones
Music by Hans J. Salter
Cinematography John F. Seitz
Editing by Richard V. Heermance
Distributed by United Artists
Release date(s) May 29, 1959
(Sweden)
June 10, 1959
(U.S.A.)
Running time 98 minutes
Country United States
Language English
Allmovie profile
IMDb profile

The Man in the Net (1959) is an American film noir directed by Michael Curtiz. The drama features Alan Ladd, Carolyn Jones, and others.[1]

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[edit] Plot

The film tells the story of John Hamilton (Ladd) who's retreated to Stoneville, Connecticut, in the New England countryside, to pursue a career as a commercial artist, but his wife Linda (Carolyn Jones) wants to go back to New York. She is observed as being both drunk and a little strange by the town-folk.

Then his alcoholic and psychologically disturbed wife disappears one day. When she does John is suspected of killing his wife.

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[edit] Critical reception

When the film was released, Richard W. Neson, film critic for The New York Times, liked the film's dialogue and theme, if not the story, and Carolyn Jones's acting, writing, "More interesting is the dialogue by Mr. Rose and his preoccupation with injustice. The lines show a keen love for kids and an honest regard for the need to interject reality into a yarn that is tediously familiar once it settles down into its melodramatic formula. Miss Jones plays the wife with controlled fanaticism. Mr. Ladd, on the other hand, performs in his usual, cool style, which under the hectic circumstances mutes his personality to the point of unreality.[2]

[edit] References

  1. ^ The Man in the Net at the Internet Movie Database.
  2. ^ Neson, Richard W. The New York Times, film review, June 11, 1959. Last accessed: December 11, 2007.

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