The sad and unfortunate life of a couple living in the Great Depression era that becomes involved into a spiral of distresses with fateful results . The exiled German director Fritz Lang gives a nice fim in his American stay , following the debut with "Fury" starred by Spencer Tracy, later to become master in all kinds of genres . This is the story of an innocent man, Henry Fonda, accused for arson , he is an ex-convict who is helped by his girlfriend : Sylvia Sidney , and eventually both of whom escape .
A stirring and moving drama with an adorable love story , though some date and glum. It results to be a peculiar variation on a Bonnie and Clyde theme , though the latter were a real criminals , this couple Fonda/Sidney turns out good-natured and kind people . Here there is a feeling of deep sadness and distress, as well as inevitability of doom that was never more compellingly captured than in this exciting . Henry Fonda gives a nice acting as an ex-con wants to mend himself his ways and attempts to cross into Canada along with his sweetheart very well played by Sylvia Sidney . They are stunningly accompanied by William Gargan, Barton MacLane , Margaret Hamilton, Big Boy Williams , Jean Dixon , among others .
This shattering motion picture with brilliant cinematography by Leon Shamroy , was poignantly and competently directed by the master Fritz Lang , being impressively scripted by Graham Baker . It results to be Fritz Lang's second Hollywood film , after his German career that includes titles as "Metropolis" , "Crimes of Dr Mabuse" , "Woman in the Moon" , "Sigfried" , "Destiny" , "Spiders" . After his consolidated German career and due to Nazi uprising , he established in America where shot a lot of films with considerable successes , such as "Return of Frank James" , "Western Union" , "Hangmen also Die" , "Woman in the Window" , "Ministry of Fear", "Scarlet Street" , "Cloak and dagger" , "Secret beyond the Door" , "Rancho Notorious" , "Clash by night", "The Big Heat" , "Moonfleet", "Human Desire", "When the city Sleeps" , "Beyond a resonante doubt" , among others . Rating 7/10 . Worthwhile seeing .
