clanciai Could a film start with a more captivating intrigue? As Lloyd Bridges lands in London after six years divorce from his beloved, he turns to a fellow passenger on the airfield for a cigarette, while a car stops some hundred yards off, a man on crutches gets out of it, loads a rifle and shoots the man as he stands with Lloyd Bridges. What a shocking welcome!And that's only the beginning. The intrigue rolls on and unfolds in constantly more intriguing complications, while the centre of the stage gradually unfolds as being a night club, of course, with an actress of both qualifications as an assistant to a magician (who knifes her in boxes) and an accomplished singer, and she is French. There is another actress too, that's Lloyd Bridges' sweetheart, but although she still loves him after six years, she is hopelessly tangled up in complications with, as it turns out, the man that was murdered and his murderer.That's only the beginning. It will take some trouble to entangle all this mess, which constantly gets more tangled. But the film actually succeeds in this, and everyone gets away with everything, but that's a different story...This would have been an ideal subject for Hitchcock, who would have gloried in magnifying the intrigues.

Myriam Nys An American construction engineer travels to England in order to meet up with the delightful sweetheart he met during the war. He gradually discovers that the said sweetheart, unlike faithful Penelope, did not spend the intervening years fasting, crying and praying... For about 98% percent of its running time, "The Limping Man" is a good, decent little thriller, well worth of seven stars or more. The performances are good and there is a nicely atmospheric evocation of London shortly after World War II, complete with wharves, pubs and clubs. (If you are familiar with London : am I right in thinking that at least part of the scenery has been comprehensively destroyed in order to make way for prestigious lofts ?) You also get a pair of pretty mellow Scotland Yard detectives, one of whom happens to bear a remarkable resemblance to French actor Michel Serrault. The movie, however, ruins itself by providing an enormously stupid ending. I won't describe the ending, because imdb tends to frown upon these things. Let's just say that, narratively, it belongs to an exquisitely lazy, facile and inept subvariety - we're well into Louis the XV-th territory here. I, for one, sat staring at the empty screen for a considerable amount of time, while going "Whut ? Whut ? Whut !" It's a fair cop-out, guv'nor.

MartinHafer Lloyd Bridges stars in this British film. The film begins with him arriving in London to see his sweetheart who he hasn't seen since the war ended six years ago. On the tarmac, a shot rings out and the man next to Bridges is killed by a sniper! The rest of the film is a mystery—with lots of twists and turns. It's all reasonably good---even though several times, Bridges tries to work out the case himself instead of just letting the police do their job (a film cliché). But then…the ending. How can a mystery end so badly?! I could easily say a lot more—but don't want to in case you see it. However, before the twist ending, I would have given the film a 6 or possibly a 7—but it was SO bad, I think a 4 is perhaps a bit generous. Well acted but seriously undone by bad writing.By the way, if you do watch it, get a load of the weird night club acts. The singing magic act and the odd xylophone routine certainly seemed odd!

kidboots People had told me about the ending of "The Limping Man" - my response was how bad could it be - the answer - extremely bad!!!! It would have been so much easier to end the film on a more conventional note - but no, someone with a vivid imagination thought - I will make this really memorable - it was memorable but for all the wrong reasons!!!Frank Prior (Lloyd Bridges) is flying back to England to see whether the girl he met during the war still loves him as much as he does her. Crossing the tarmac, one of the passengers is killed by an unknown sniper, just after Prior asks him for a light. After being cleared to go by the police, Frank, tries to contact his friend, Pauline, whose photo just happens to be in the dead man's (Kendall Brown) pocket. When he catches up with Pauline (Moira Lister) she is quite nervous. The police also want to talk to Helen Castle (Helene Cordet), who has a novelty magic act "Hey Presto". She was Kendall's wife but they have been separated for 3 years - or so she says!!!Meanwhile Frank and Pauline spend a leisurely day on the river but when the boat runs out of petrol the man who comes to their assistance seems to know her, as does a stranger from the pub. (Rachel Roberts has a few moments as a chatty barmaid). Then Frank sees the limping man!!!! He finds he is deep in a plot that involves smuggling and incriminating love letters. There is a very funny scene where Frank and Pauline climb into a room (to evade the police) where two children are watching TV - the children get upset because they think the strangers will tell their parents about their nocturnal TV viewing. When they go downstairs the parents are having a party and just assume Frank and Pauline guests!!This was typical of the style of thrillers that John Mills had made ("The Long Memory" etc). I agree Moira Lister was very lack lustre and seemed quite unexciting in her role, certainly not interesting enough to be the dare devil she portrayed. More interesting was Jean Marsh, who became famous playing Rose in the prestigious TV series "Upstairs, Downstairs" - she made her debut in this film playing the land lady's teenage daughter. Lloyd Bridges had several leading roles before his phenomenally successful role as Mike Nelson in the TV series "Sea Hunt".