Matialth Good concept, poorly executed.

Pacionsbo Absolutely Fantastic

Gary The movie's not perfect, but it sticks the landing of its message. It was engaging - thrilling at times - and I personally thought it was a great time.

Guillelmina The film's masterful storytelling did its job. The message was clear. No need to overdo.

Myriam Nys An American construction engineer travels to England in order to meet up with the delightful sweetheart he met during the war. He gradually discovers that the said sweetheart, unlike faithful Penelope, did not spend the intervening years fasting, crying and praying... For about 98% percent of its running time, "The Limping Man" is a good, decent little thriller, well worth of seven stars or more. The performances are good and there is a nicely atmospheric evocation of London shortly after World War II, complete with wharves, pubs and clubs. (If you are familiar with London : am I right in thinking that at least part of the scenery has been comprehensively destroyed in order to make way for prestigious lofts ?) You also get a pair of pretty mellow Scotland Yard detectives, one of whom happens to bear a remarkable resemblance to French actor Michel Serrault. The movie, however, ruins itself by providing an enormously stupid ending. I won't describe the ending, because imdb tends to frown upon these things. Let's just say that, narratively, it belongs to an exquisitely lazy, facile and inept subvariety - we're well into Louis the XV-th territory here. I, for one, sat staring at the empty screen for a considerable amount of time, while going "Whut ? Whut ? Whut !" It's a fair cop-out, guv'nor.

Brian7250 I'm surprised that so many people seem to be disappointed with the ending of this film. The story is typical of a 1950s British crime film with good performances by all - but this ending makes it a bit different. It has the inevitable American lead, in this case the excellent Lloyd Bridges, to make it attractive to the US. The story is seen through to the expected ending but then we find that the story was not perhaps located where we thought it was. It does not mean that the story, still a fictional one of course, becomes any less entertaining because of it. As I get older I realise that an "unconscious" mind, so to speak, is capable of great detail and can set many random and complex problems for which it then tries to find solutions, it must then try to resolve at least some of them before it returns to full consciousness. The clues are there, remember the limping man being followed to the riverside, where did he go? Yes, the shock of the ending is sudden, but when you wake up it's usually like that, all may be forgotten in a flash. Did the writer of the original story or the director think of it like that, or was it just an attempt to be different, a joke, just for the sake of it? I don't know but I liked it.

kapelusznik18 ***SPOILERS*** Nobody knew at the time when the film "The Limping Man" came limping into the theaters in late 1953 what an impact it would have on it's audiences who were still around, if they didn't walk out earlier, for the films last few shocking and totally unexpected moments. It started out as your usual crime assassination flick with returning US WWII veteran Frank Prior, Llyod Bridges, getting off a plane from NY in London to rekindle an affair he had with his British girlfriend Pauline French, Moria Listen, six years ago. That soon lead to one of the plane passengers getting gunned down by an unseen sniper as Frank was about to give him a light! From then on Frank was hounded by Scotland Yard's Insp. Braddock, Alan Wheatley, and his assistant the skirt chasing Det. Cameron, Leslie Phillips, for the entire length of the movie. As for Pauline she seemed to have had some romantic relationship with the murdered man revealed to be Kendal Brown, Bruce Beebe, who was involved in smuggling contraband into the country.It soon turns out that whoever murdered Kendal Brown had a noticeable limp, from the footprints found at the scene, and it was that limp or limper whom both the police Scotland Yard as well as Frank were out looking for to find Browns killer. As for Pauline she knew the truth all along about Brown and his illegal activities and kept her mouth shut so she won't be implicated in them. There's also the late Kendal Brown's estranged wife showgirl and magician aid Helene Castle, Helene Cordet, who identified his body at the London City morgue who didn't seem to show any emotion at all in knowing that he's gone and now not paying her rent or clothing bills!***SPOILERS*** The movie leads up to a number of unexpected surprises in that we as well as Frank & Palline find out that Brown wasn't killed at all but faked his death by using some unknowing stooge, in not realizing what's to happen to him,to replace him and end up getting murdered! As for the now live Brown he want's his former lover Pauline to pay him off, with 2,000 pounds sterling, and slip him out of the country to France in her motorboat. That or else he'll release a number of revealing and incriminating letters that she sent him not just about her romance but criminal activities she had with him. The film ends with such a confusing climax that you have to re-watch it to get the massage that it's trying to tell you. That's if you ever saw the movie "The Wizard Oz" you'll quickly realize what it is!

mark.waltz When in the middle of this film, Lloyd Bridges asks about a certain clue, "What do you make of it?", you may, like me, expect the flamboyant Johnny from "Airplane!" to jump in and say, "A hat, a broach, a pterodactyl!". Yes, like Peter Graves, Robert Stack and Leslie Nielsen, the Bridges patriarch started off in dramatic roles, yet found his niche in spoofing his own image through comedy. It is difficult to separated him from these roles even though he originally played either heavies or action heroes before changing his image by stating, "Looks like I picked the wrong week to stop sniffing glue!" Here, he's all serious, an American visiting England who was at the airport when a sniper shot a mystery man who turns out to be the other man in a triangle with Bridges' estranged girlfriend (Moira Lister). Bridges learns the truth and details about his girlfriend's secret life that leads him into all sorts of intrigue.American stars in British film noir and thrillers added a smooth touch to the stiff upper lip pretense of the English in all sorts of parts, good and evil, and the results could be very mixed at times. The Hammer Noir was decidedly mixed, and this ranks among them as an acceptable, if unremarkable, thriller with moments of tension and other sequences sometimes dull and slowly paced. Bridges stands out like a sore thumb among the rest of the cast, and if it wasn't for some crafty dark photography, this might well have fallen below the mark.So try to put aside your desire to quote him from "Airplane!" or the "Hot Shots" movies and instead, take a trip into the dives of London, Music Halls and pups and let Bridges remind you of what a serious actor he used to be before a diving suit and the Zucker Brothers changed his image forever.