Those two ladies who had fingered him as the robber couldn't at least apologize to Manny? They owe him so much more than that, yet they couldn't have made the simplest gesture?
shareThey were turds up to the end. Hitchcock probably felt that this added to the cynical realism, since it was based on a true incident.
True, and it so true to life that it hurts just watching it. I've seen it. This is the way the real world is. Not everyone, thank God, but too g'damned many of us; I mean we humans
shareHitchcock knew what he was doing when he cast Henry Fonda. His face and demeanor scream innocence, rectitude, decency.
They do not make movie stars like they used to. Where are men like Fonda, Robert Mitchum, Burt Lancaster, Robert Ryan, William Holden?
Now we get snarky twerps in Superman outfits.
Dead, dead, dead, dead, and dead.
sharethey were awful, at least show some remorse for almost destroying an innocent man's life.
sharethey could have said something
shareDespicable women at the start too, why would a robber come back giving them his full address?
shareThe cops should have wondered about that, too. Maybe that was covered in the film; I haven't seen it for a while.
shareThe cops were despicable too, allowing Fonda to walk into those stores...on his own, whilst they waited outside, if Fonda had been the robber he could have easily threatened the witnesses there and then, without the police noticing.
The cops didn’t ask Fonda where he was during the robberies either, I’m sure they did irl but it seemed amiss that they didn’t in the film.
At least that one cop at the end saved the day, lucky for Fonda, any of his colleagues would have carried on walking.
Those were all questions I had while watching. With all of this happening the way it did, I understand Vera Miles’s character having a nervous breakdown.
shareI felt nothing but despise for her
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