Film

Movie theaters, reviews and showtimes in New York, plus articles, trailers and more
 

The Man in the Road (1956)

Director: Lance Comfort

Average user rating
No reviews

Movie review

From Time Out Film Guide

Cold War spy thriller with a stale storyline about communist agents trying to prise a secret formula from a brilliant amnesiac scientist (young writer Ella Raines to the rescue). Guy Morgan, who adapted the script from a popular novel of the day (Anthony Armstrong's He Was Found in the Road), was a former secretary of the British Screenwriters' Association and habitually complained about the lack of recognition screenwriters received. He protested too much, perhaps.

Author: GM 0000-00-00 00:00:00

Time Out Film Guide

  • Print this page
  • Send to a friend

What do you think?
Post your review now

clear rating
Min 1 star. Zero stars will be treated as unrated.

*mandatory fields


Cast & crew

Director: Lance Comfort

Producer: Charles A Leeds

Cast: Derek Farr, Ella Raines, Donald Wolfit, Lisa Daniely, Karel Stepanek, Cyril Cusack full cast

Genre(s): Thrillers

Duration: 84 mins


Features

Making a name for himself

Making a name for himself

Sin Nombre's Cary Joji Fukunaga learned his lessons well.

To the letter

Forty years later, Costa-Gavras's Z still brims with fury.

Mind over matter

David Cronenberg reflects on a most bizarre body: his own corpus of work.

Fool's gold

Can an Oscar win lead to a cursed career? Here are five stories of postaward professional meltdowns.

We are the championed

Terrorists and teens abound in this year's "Film Comment Selects."

A history of violence

Matteo Garrone's kaleidoscopic Gomorrah wallops you with Italy's crime crisis.

True romantic

James Gray exchanges urban amorality for amour in Two Lovers.

Playing in the dark

MoMA salutes pianist Stuart Oderman's 50 years as the one-man sound of silents.

Junk bonds

Cast and crew recall the making of the classic NYC drug drama The Panic in Needle Park.