Chirphymium It's entirely possible that sending the audience out feeling lousy was intentional

AshUnow This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

Hayden Kane There is, somehow, an interesting story here, as well as some good acting. There are also some good scenes

Deanna There are moments in this movie where the great movie it could've been peek out... They're fleeting, here, but they're worth savoring, and they happen often enough to make it worth your while.

Richard Chatten The Danziger Brothers had a dreadful reputation during the late fifties and early sixties, but this is the first of their quickies that I've seen that truly lives down to their ill repute. It's so stilted it resembles a parody, and nobody seems to have told director Montgomery Tully about the invention of the close up (it was probably shot so quickly he didn't have time for them); even the location sequences are uninteresting.Poor Carol Marsh - so memorable in 'Brighton Rock' and 'Dracula' - is left to founder by her director, and this proved to be her last film. The most suspenseful aspect of the film is whether it's going to opt for the boring option of making handsome Ronald Howard innocent after all; if he'd turned out to be guilty it might have justified the film's existence, but even the title - 'Man Accused' rather than, say 'Man Suspected' - makes it rather obvious how things are going to turn out.However I'll give it an extra star for the fact that it did deliver a few surprises towards the end; plus an observation worthy of a Harry Enfield spoof that the real jewel thief "would never trust a man who drinks or a woman. Too erratic."

MartinHafer A rich young lady is about to marry. However, at her engagement party, an insurance investigator announces that he recognizes the fiancé--he's a man who has likely killed two previous fiancées in order to steal their jewels!! She naturally doesn't believe the story but soon the evidence all seems to point to the boyfriend. And, eventually, the police end up arresting the guy for not just robbery but murder. Can there be more to the story than this?! This is a very low budget British film--sort of like a British B-movie due to its production values and short running time (slightly less than an hour). However, unlike what you might expect from a B, it's a pretty good little mystery. In fact, I might have given it a score higher than 6 if the writing had been excellent throughout. However, there were two portions that were very rough. First, when the film began, there was too much exposition. They tried to tell the back story TOO FAST--and it sounded very unnatural. They should have just doled out this information slowly instead of the clumsy conversation at the start. Second, late in the film, a wrongly accused man is EASILY able to convince others to help him escape from jail--and it's remarkably easy. And, he wraps everything up perfectly!! This is so clichéd--and it wasn't necessary. They easily could have had the man in prison convince the authorities to investigate his theory of the real culprit--and arranged for a fake escape so they could monitor this final showdown. Or, they could have simply INVESTIGATED THE CASE and discovered the bad guy and not used these stupid clichés. It's sad, as they really had a dandy film here--but it just got a bit sloppy at times.

secondtake Man Accused (1959)A slight affair, well enough done to keep you going, but not so well written, and a bit of a contrived plot. But hey, it's less than an hour, and is as distracting and convincing as most good television (at the same length). Is there anything remarkable here, any actors to appreciate, anyone behind the scenes? Not that I can find. Here in the US were are familiar (some of us) with the smaller studios like Republic and Monogram who were making B-movies, some of which are pretty interesting (and a bit different from the larger studio fare). "Man Accused" is a British small studio film, produced by the Danzigers, and it had the same role, aimed at both the second feature slot and at television. In fact, this is shot not in widescreen (which had become essentially standard by 1959) but in normal old 4:3 ratio, probably with t.v. in mind.You might notice one actor is named Ian Fleming, and no, it's not the famous Fleming, Ian Fleming of James Bond fame, but an Aussie actor. That would have been fun. And the leading woman, who is a bit too cheerfully insistent throughout, is Carol Marsh, who played a wonderful Alice in the 1949 "Alice in Wonderland."

gerry1019 The Danziger Brothers were a much maligned production group making what used to be called Quota Quickies. Not all of their films were that bad and this is one of the better ones.The movie opens with the engagement party of a rich,just coming of age, heiress to an engineer who is a bit of a stranger in town.Also attending the party is the old family lawyer who brings along a friend, an insurance investigator.The insurance guy recognises the groom to be as a notorious jewel thief who operated in Latin America. And yes, the bride will be inheriting some fabulous jewels and the groom to be did indeed work in Latin America.From then on the production is not particularly original but certainly entertaining enough to keep you occcupied for the hour or so the movie lasts.