Cubussoli Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!

Evengyny Thanks for the memories!

Juana what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.

Geraldine The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

ma-cortes Acceptable film mainly set in an extremely sunny desert and with limited roles . It has little budget and a few actors , most budget goes to 3D Technicolor , stereophonic sound and other technical elements . It stars an alcoholic and egoistic millionaire well played by Robert Ryan who is left at the Mojave desert by his wife Rhonda Fleming and her lover William Lundigan . Meanwhile, the selfish Ryan attempts to save himself, as he carries out a dangerous descent into a canyon with just one rope and a fall of hundreds of feet.This is a tight and suspenseful essay in intrigue with a basically simple and plain premise which works ingeniously thanks to magnificent interpretations and adequate exteriors . As Ryan gives a fine acting as the wealthy , unsympathetic man who breaks his leg falling off , as we are forced to change out attitude of contempt to one of sympathy and admiration for his sheer will to survive . Along with Ryan appears the gorgeous Rhonda Fleming who is very nice as the cheating wife and Willian Lundigan as the traitor as well as nasty lover . Decent support cast such as : Henry Hull , Larry Keating , Harry Carter . Well produced by 20th Century Fox that distributed on a double bill with the western "Rawhide" by Henry Hathaway . When the cast and crew arrived at the Mojave desert location they suffered several illness such as pneumonia and fevers , that is why the high temperatures and cold nights .It packs a colorful and brilliant cinematography in technicolor , released in 3D by the prestigious Lucien Ballard , Sam Peckinpah regular . Thrilling and atmospheric musical score by Paul Sawtell . The motion picture was professionally directed by Roy Ward Baker who handles the suspense pretty well ; Inferno was one of the best and last movies to be made in 3D during the boom in the early 50s, here emphasising the dramatic possibilities , though this devise had largely been squandered in other films made at the time ; however , Roy Baker uses it appropriately . The British Roy Baker directed a great number of films as in US/Hollywood as "House in the square, Don't bother to knock , Night with sleep" as in England usually in terror movies for Hammer productions such as : "Masks of death, Legend of 7 golden golden vampires , Vault of horrors , The scars of Dracula , Dr Jekill Sister Hyde, The anniversary , And now the screaming starts , The monster club , The vampire lovers , and Asylum" , among others . Rating : 6/10 well worth seeing .

dougdoepke Pass me a canteen, quick. I'm all dried out after watching this desert pressure cooker. Seems Carson's wife and her lover have left spoiled millionaire Carson alone in the vast desert to die, and with a broken leg, no less. Plus, that Mojave Desert is some kind of long, empty oven. So now the poor guy has to figure out how to survive under next to impossible conditions. Worse, the god-forsaken landscape stretches out to what looks like infinity. I sure hope actor Ryan was well paid because he literally drags his butt across half the rocky landscape. But Carson's one determined guy, and by golly he's going to get even with those two traitors even if it kills him.Only a powerhouse actor like Ryan could make Carson's grit, in the face of impossible odds, at all plausible. The screenplay does a pretty good job of showing how he improvises, still the ordeal itself remains something of a stretch. On the other hand, Lundigan makes a rather colorless "other man", while Fleming as the faithless wife looks unusually glum. I gather from IMDb that she caught a case of pneumonia on arrival at what was then a snowy Mojave location. Apparently, it carried over to her performance, which is without her usual sheen. Nonetheless, the flaming hair really looks good in Technicolor.The movie's a grabber right up to the climax, where the fist-fight is unfortunately overdone, apparently to accommodate the 3-d technology. All in all, the survival plot may have been done a number of times, but none better than here, thanks mainly to that great gritty actor, Robert Ryan.

blanche-2 Inferno is a small but excellent 1953 film about a beautiful woman (Rhonda Fleming) and her lover (William Lundigan) who leave the woman's husband (Robert Ryan) alone in the desert with a broken leg, assuming he'll croak. The story focuses on Ryan's character trying to survive in the desert and what he learns about himself.With gorgeous Rhonda Fleming in the movie, it's done in color. A chimpanzee could have played her part - there's precious little acting involved - but she certainly adds tremendous beauty to the production. She and another spectacular redhead, Arlene Dahl, both were getting larger roles in films at the time the studio system was winding down. Ten years earlier, they might have ruled the world. William Lundigan is appropriately cold-blooded as her horny lover, and Larry Keating is an appropriately concerned business associate.But this is Ryan's film, and he's top-notch. His thoughts come over as voice-over, and you're pulling for him every step of the way, despite everyone describing him as unpleasant.Excellent film, quite a surprise.

MrPie7 Not on anybody's play list but the Westerns Channel should pick up on it. Rhonda Fleming is so hot in this film that I would be tempted into going along with the scheme! Remade in the 70's with Arthur Hill in the Robert Ryan role. One of my all time favorites! This film is almost NEVER shown. I first saw it on T.V. in the mid-sixties. Have been searching for it ever since. Finally saw it for a second time in early 2006. I have never seen a better man vs nature film. The initially unlikeable, cantankerous millionaire, excellently portrayed by Ryan is so transformed by his experience that in the end he even loses most of his rage against his wife and her lover. He just basks in his newly won self respect.