Wordiezett So much average

Catangro After playing with our expectations, this turns out to be a very different sort of film.

Murphy Howard I enjoyed watching this film and would recommend other to give it a try , (as I am) but this movie, although enjoyable to watch due to the better than average acting fails to add anything new to its storyline that is all too familiar to these types of movies.

Dana An old-fashioned movie made with new-fashioned finesse.

Andrew Goss As far as it goes, this film is well made, well acted, and atmospheric. But that's about all. It is as if the film was mistakenly based on an early draft of the script, still full of holes and redundancies.We have a murderer who goes out in the rain and kills people "to rid the world of evil" or similar. What is supposed to be evil about the victims we don't know, and the police never ask. How the victims are selected and tracked, we don't know, the police don't care. The romantic interest is clumsily inserted and serves no dramatic purpose.The climax is standard stuff, though very well done, but it did raise a doubt in my mind - was this really the guilty party? We never learn much about the killer, but we do know one thing for certain, and what happens at the climax seems in contradiction to it.But nobody cares.

mark.waltz Here comes 'da' judge, a serial killer who only attacks during downpours, strangling those he has judged to be less than moral in a society he feels deserves to have the gavel brought down upon it. He leaves behind just enough evidence to confound the detectives, determined to locate him before the mercury rises again. To aid the search, detective William Lundigan creates a dummy model, which he adds details to every time another clue is dropped into his lap. Magazine writer Dorothy Patrick is initially a thorn in his side, but he can't help but later involve her when he realizes how important this story is to her.This clever and tense film noir isn't about who it is, but why and how the culprit's train of death is stopped. Clues leads to waitresses, landlords and crazies who claim to be the killer, and eventually a gripping conclusion that rivals the same year's "White Heat" in its use of a confrontation in a power plant. The film is superbly edited with enough dark photography to keep it gripping for its tight hour-long running time. This shows that the bottom of the bill could be more exciting and ultimately more satisfying than the top of the bill "A" feature.

Alex da Silva William Lundigan (Lt Harry Grant) is on the case of a killer who strangles his victims from behind but with the added curiosity that he only strikes when it rains. The victims seem random. Dorothy Patrick (Ann) plays a journalist who is likable enough but prone to sticking her nose everywhere in order to get a story.There are memorable scenes that include Lundigan talking to a life-size dummy of the murderer, and the moment that the murderer suspects he has been rumbled, although I think it was a shame to make him start running at that moment. The film starts well with an opening scene of Dorothy Patrick waiting in the rain and we also have the anticipated face to face moment at the end of the film between Lundigan and the killer.While Lundigan comes across at times as monotone and some of the dialogue between him and his police colleague Jeff Corey is rather wooden, it doesn't detract from the story, and the best acting comes from Paul Guilfoyle as the husband of a murder victim. Unfortunately, not enough is made of the role of Dorothy Patrick. I would have liked to see her more involved in the unravelling of the mystery and maybe have a confrontation between her and the murderer. As it is, she has a very fluffy role and is given an irritating, cutesy answer to everything when she repeats the word "connections".This film runs its course but unfortunately lacks any real suspense. While there are many good moments, you feel that better use could have been made of them in the development of the story and ultimately, the film comes across as routine. Nice idea about having a psychopath whose trigger is rainfall, though.

scottart-2 I saw this film when I was 10 years old and it has haunted me all my life. At first I could only remember a guy waiting in a room for someone to come back, but then there was the idea of a crazy murderer who goes bizerk when it rains and then the memory of all these dummies in the police station and the murderer gets in there somehow, I don;t know how, but as he is in the room someone comes in, a policeman, just to check out the dummies and the murderer goes and sits in a chair so he won't be discovered because he looks like all the other dummies that are sitting there, and as he is sitting he is facing a window...and we see that it is beginning to rain...and there is a close up of his hand gripping the arm of the chair...all this is from my memory of the film as a 10-year old - when I managed to discover what the film was with the use of IMDb and got a video and looked at it - it all seemed pretty harmless stuff - I saw the film in a little cinema in Shaftesbury Dorset with my brother. My parents left us there and had no idea what the film was. The memory of the American streets, and the cars and the black and white quality have all stayed with me...