Man Hunt (1941)

Prior to WWII, a big game hunter (Walter Pidgeon) visiting Germany has a high powered rifle aimed at Adolf Hitler but he is captured by the Gestapo. He is tortured while being coerced into signing a confession that he was working at the behest of the British government. He escapes but his Nazi pursuers lead by the Gestapo leader (George Sanders) follow him to England. Based on the novel ROGUE MALE by Geoffrey Household and directed by Fritz Lang. One of several anti-Nazi films Lang made during his tenure in Hollywood, this is my favorite of the bunch. It's a propaganda film to be sure but made with such skill and grandly entertaining (it's a first rate thriller). It manages to avoid preachiness until the very end. Pidgeon isn't the most compelling of actors but he's quite affable here. Bennett playing a Cockney prostitute is both charming and touching, quite a departure from the treacherous tarts she played in her two most famous films with Lang. With Roddy McDowall, Heather Thatcher, Frederick Worlock, Eily Malyon and John Carradine (who has a spectacular death).