5 Fingers [VHS]

5 Fingers [VHS]
by Joseph L. Mankiewicz

5 Fingers [VHS]
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Actor: Danielle Darrieux, James Mason, Michael Rennie, Oskar Karlweis, Walter Hampden
Director: Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Cinematographer: Norbert Brodine
Writer: Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Editor: James B. Clark
Producer: Gerd Oswald
Producer: Otto Lang
Writer: L.C. Moyzisch
Writer: Michael Wilson
Edition: VHS Tape
Audio: English (Original Language), Analog; German (Original Language); Portuguese (Original Language); Turkish (Original Language)
Format: Black & White, Closed-captioned, NTSC
Running Time: 108 minutes
Release Date: 1998-01-01
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Publisher: 20th Century Fox
Studio: 20th Century Fox

VHS Movie Reviews of 5 Fingers [VHS]

Movie Review: Grab this gem of a spy film
Summary: 5 Stars

Others have already written able descriptions of the film 5 FINGERS (1952). It is an underrated classic of the spy genre. A great performance by James Mason, in a role that he was born to play. Great direction, editing, writing, and cinematography. I'm not a particular fan of espionage films. Still, I can't believe that this film isn't better known: a good Region 1 DVD treatment is still unavailable! If you are a fan of ODD MAN OUT (1947) or THE THIRD MAN (1949), don't skip this one!

Movie Review: JOSEPH L. MANKIEWICZ, OPUS 11
Summary: 5 Stars

***** 1952. Co-written and directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz. Based on L.C. Moyzisch's Operation Cicero, the film earned two nominations for the Oscars, one Golden Globe (screenplay) and the 1953 Edgar Allan Poe award. A servant at the British embassy in Ankara delivers top secrets documents to the Germans. Another masterpiece by Mankiewicz who, by using the spy movies genre this time, handles two of his favorite themes; interplay between social classes and the humiliation theme. You can find here Five Fingers [ NON-USA FORMAT, PAL, Reg. 2 Import - Great Britain ] a DVD release of this movie but, believe me, if you own a DVD player that can read zone 2 DVD's, go to Amazon.fr and choose the Mankiewicz box set released by Carlotta films. This set contains also DRAGONWYCK and A LETTER TO THREE WIVES. The quality of these DVD's is excellent and the three featurettes highly informative.

Movie Review: Reminds me of the old Mission impossible TV shows
Summary: 4 Stars

I enjoyed watching the show. The twists and turns as what appears to be an idealistic good man who is a thief is slowly shown as a potential mass murder.

The acting was good.

Movie Review: a movie of intensity and brutality
Summary: 4 Stars

the Interrogation technique of this movie is definitely being used to those terrorist suspects prisoned by us. very brutal, vicious, cunning, coercing, intimidating, cruel, and inhumane. this is how to completely dismantle a person's mind. if compare to my recent viewing of 'the lives of others', one of the best movies i've ever seen, those coerce, threaten techniques used by the east germany stasi, seems to suddenly become too gentle, too kind and too polite. cutting off fingers one by one because of the wrong answers indeed is the most efficient way to destroy a trained deep-cover person. all the actors in this film are talented veteran performers. with a good screenplay as a plus, the simple in-house setting never bored the viewers. those flashback memories sometimes loosened up the tense a little bit, but still necessary.
after watched this movie, i often looked at my ten fingers and couldn't help thinking that if somebody threatens to cut off my fingers, even just one, or just the tip of that finger, merely for the purpose of knowing whether i've done that or this....well, would i confess it right away? but what if i simply couldn't remember?
my reason of given 4 stars instead of 5 is this:
i've cut and wounded my fingers and my other parts of my hands so many times during the current life span. there were large and long cuts on my fingers, palms and on the back of my hands that most of the times the bleedings simply couldn't stop and i had to rush to the e.r. to sew them up.
what i could tell you is that even that wound was generated from a careless paper cut, it would hurt like hell and that throbbing pain would also prolong for at least two to three days, sometimes even longer. and during the healing time, you have to keep your whole hand and arm raised higher than your heart to reduce the constant throbbing pain generated by the damaged nerves and from the blood pressure. if you carelessly lowered down your arm, guess what? you might cry out loud by the sudden increase of the shocking pain.
so based upon my personal experiences, if a finger was brutally cut off, the pain would be absolutely unimaginable and unbearable, not to imagine what the pain would be if the fingers were cut off one by one and during prolonged intervals.
but what the aftermaths played by the actor who played that finger-cutting prisoner were simply not true and realistic enough. he screamed his heart out every time when one of his fingers was cut off, but the pain seemed to subside and ebb away right afterward and so soon. and he could also lower down that arm and talk normally. that is absolutely impossible! just like what i've seen in 'kiss, kiss, bang, bang', a finger crashed by a door, like cut off by a knife, fell to the floor, and the guy simply didn't mind and care, still joked around and used that hand normally. it's not just impossible, it's ridiculous!

Movie Review: Five Fingers
Summary: 5 Stars

Based on a true story, this movie is one of the best spy thrillers I've ever seen. The screen play is written with such intelligence and absolute wit that it keeps you at the edge of your seat from the moment it beings until the very last surprising, yet satisfying, second of the movie. James Mason's performance in nothing short of brilliant. His charm is utterly captivating. His lines in this movie are totally unforgettable, as are the lines of Danielle Darrieux who told a German officer "Please don't look at me as if you have more than your salary to live on". This is also a story that makes you reflect on the difference between good and bad leadership and how even the best information or knowledge in the hands of "juvenile delinquents" (as someone called them in the movie) can be useless.
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