Der zweite Mann (1963)
38KDer zweite Mann: Directed by Carol Reed. With Laurence Harvey, Lee Remick, Alan Bates, Felix Aylmer. An Englishman with a grudge against an insurance company for a disallowed claim fakes his own death, but is soon pursued by an insurance investigator.
“A decent enough thriller but one that really needed a Hitchcock or at least a director who knew how to mould the somewhat far-fetched material into something more plausible than this. Instead we get Carol Reed on something of an off-day and he seems more content to let the material carry itself rather than actually do something with it.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eLaurence Harvey is seriously miscast as the serial insurance fraudster pursued to Spain by Alan Batesu0026#39; insurance investigator while Lee Remick does what she can with the rather thankless part of Harveyu0026#39;s wife. Bates is very good and just about carries the picture while the cat-and-mouse scenario is often exciting and Robert Kraskeru0026#39;s widescreen cinematography, (it was shot mostly in the South of Spain), is certainly attractive. Itu0026#39;s the kind of film you might expect from someone like Michael Anderson or a host of other serviceable directors slumming it in some exotic locale but from Reed you really do expect more.”
