Click here to buy posters! This was Fritz Lang's last Hollywood movie and was a sad ending to it. In a way, it can be looked on as an indictment of how shoddily Hollywood treated the greatest film director of the 20th Century (and I'm sure if Lang were alive he would have agreed with that title!). The film has B-movie written all over it. Lang deserved better. A trick ending wraps up the melodrama in Beyond a Reasonable Doubt but comes a little too late to revive interest in a tale that relies too often on pat contrivance rather than logical development. Sure, Lang's direction does what it can to inject suspense and interest (and you would have expected little else from the genius that was # Lang) but the melodrama never really jells. Dana Andrews is a writer engaged to Joan Fontaine, daughter of a newspaper publisher Sidney Blackmer. The latter talks Andrews into going along with his scheme for showing up the fallacy of circumstantial evidence that has given ambitious district attorney Phillip Borneuf a long string of convictions. In brief, Blackner plans to plant evidence that will get Andrews arrested, tried and convicted for the murder of a burlesque stripper, recently found dead without any clues to indicate the killer. Scheme works as planned, except at the crucial moment Blackner gets himself killed. Neither above-mentioned players nor others in the cast add much to make the events credible, seemingly performing with an almost casual air. 2 STARS OUT OF 5 Dana Andrews & Joan Fontaine Beyond a Reasonable Doubt, 1956 beyond a reasonable doubt dvds | videos al pacino | michelle pfeiffer yul brynner | christopher plummer | romy schneider the godfather | the godfather part ii marlon brando | james caan | diane keaton | al pacino laurence olivier | clark gable | vivien leigh | leslie howard | alfred hitchcock | robert montgomery | grace kelly olivia de havilland | humphrey bogart | howard hawks | frank capra | charlie chaplin | lauren bacall | fritz lang jean harlow | greta garbo | ava gardner | audrey hepburn | edward g. robinson | john garfield erich von stroheim | wim wenders | madeleine carroll | marlene dietrich | rita hayworth fritz lang dvds fritz lang videos beyond a reasonable doubt dvds | videos al pacino | michelle pfeiffer yul brynner | christopher plummer | romy schneider the godfather | the godfather part ii marlon brando | james caan | diane keaton | al pacino laurence olivier | clark gable | vivien leigh | leslie howard | alfred hitchcock | robert montgomery | grace kelly olivia de havilland | humphrey bogart | howard hawks | frank capra | charlie chaplin | lauren bacall | fritz lang jean harlow | greta garbo | ava gardner | audrey hepburn | edward g. robinson | john garfield erich von stroheim | wim wenders | madeleine carroll | marlene dietrich | rita hayworth Page created by: lenin@netcomuk.co.uk Changes last made: 2004