I only got through 30 minutes of Man-Trap and I had to turn it off. I've watched so many noirs, crime-dramas in my life - from high to miniscule budget, all over the globe, etc.
Every so often, I have to bail out. I thought - "well, maybe when I first started watching older films I would have gotten through this". Not sure if that's true though - because 30+ years ago I started with the best - Murder My Sweet, Kiss Me Deadly, etc.
David Jansen's is great in The Fugitive, but his performance here does not age well. Stella Stevens and her drunk bit would be funny in a pre-code, but it's ridiculous in 1961. The party scene was just about the last straw. Show that to a teenager who is trying to get interested in b/w films and forget it! The scene where Jansen starts showing the film to Hunter: it's as if Hunter was expecting to see it! It makes no sense. He has not seen him in 10 years! The scene with all three of them - with Stevens coming onto Jansen - is just as bad.
Every so often, I have to bail out. I thought - "well, maybe when I first started watching older films I would have gotten through this". Not sure if that's true though - because 30+ years ago I started with the best - Murder My Sweet, Kiss Me Deadly, etc.
David Jansen's is great in The Fugitive, but his performance here does not age well. Stella Stevens and her drunk bit would be funny in a pre-code, but it's ridiculous in 1961. The party scene was just about the last straw. Show that to a teenager who is trying to get interested in b/w films and forget it! The scene where Jansen starts showing the film to Hunter: it's as if Hunter was expecting to see it! It makes no sense. He has not seen him in 10 years! The scene with all three of them - with Stevens coming onto Jansen - is just as bad.