Malcolm St. Clair’s pre-World War II espionage film Crack-Up is a B-movie with some cracking good actors on board and a story that, with German spies in the mix, has more resonance in retrospect than it probably had at the time of its first release in 1936. The story doesn’t go far enough with feelings and sentiments, and the denouement is an irritating throwaway that should have been rethought and replotted, but the film is undeniably entertaining in its small, simple way, and it features Peter Lorre in an early American film role after scoring so forcefully in Hitchcock’s first version of The Man Who Knew Too Much in England.
Studio: Fox
Distributed By: N/A
Video Resolution and Encode: 480I/MPEG-2
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audio: English 2.0 DD
Subtitles: None
Rating: Not Rated
Run Time: 1 Hr. 10 Min.
Package Includes: DVD
Amaray caseDisc Type: DVD-R
Region: All
Release Date: 06/03/2014
MSRP: $19.98
The Production Rating: 3/5
Video Rating: 3.5/5 3D Rating: NA
Audio Rating: 3/5
Special Features Rating: 0/5
Overall Rating: 3/5
Reviewed By: Matt Hough
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