Fritz Lang's "Bizarre But Fascinating" Manhunt On DVD!

You have to check out this new DVD release of Manhunt, a rare 1941 Fritz Lang film with a wild premise. Walter Pidgeon plays Captain Thorndike, a British big game hunter who, for sport, decides to hunt down Adolf Hitler. In the beginning of the film he even has the German leader in his sights -- until he is caught by the Nazis. He is ultimately able to escape, only to find enemy agents on every corner looking for him on his return to London. He enlists the help of a prostitute (played by Joan Bennett with a hideous cockney accent) and tries to wriggle free of the tightening clutches of the Nazis (George Sanders and John Carradine among them). Basically a propaganda thriller, Manhunt has a lot of trademark Lang, like shadowy streets, paranoia and even a doomed love interest -- when Pidgeon leans in for one kiss with Bennett on a fog-shrouded bridge he is thwarted. This is a truly bizarre but fascinating film. The documentary on the making of the movie is invaluable, explaining its importance in rescuing Lang’s career in Hollywood and how it began a great partnership with the beautiful and alluring Bennett, whom Lang went on to make three more films with, two of them masterpieces of film noir: The Woman In The Window and Scarlet Street.