Man Hunt (1941)

Cool premise: a well-known British big-game hunter trains his rifle on Adolf Hitler, just to see if he can...or was he actually planning to pull the trigger and getting caught in the act caused him to quickly change the story?

After the "why" is set-up, we get the "what," which turns out to be that the Brit, after being left for dead, makes his way back to England and is chased about by Nazi spies. Its serial roots are evidenced by regular tiny cliffhangers, but it's pretty entertaining as a film -- up until the denouement.

Joan Bennett, as a wrong-side-of-the-tracks gal who helps our hero hide, is lovely but thoroughly unconvincing.

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