Man in the Middle
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DVD Cover Information Actor: Barry Sullivan, France Nuyen, Keenan Wynn, Robert Mitchum, Trevor Howard Director: Guy Hamilton Brand: MITCHUM,ROBERT Cinematographer: Wilkie Cooper Editor: John Bloom Producer: Max E. Youngstein Producer: Walter Seltzer Writer: Howard Fast Writer: Keith Waterhouse Writer: Willis Hall DVD: Region Code 1 Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language) Format: Black & White, NTSC Picture Format: 2.35:1 Running Time: 94 minutes DVD Release Date: 2007-04-24 Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated) Studio: 20th Century Fox |
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Movie Reviews of Man in the Middle
Movie Review: A pretty good military drama with a good story
Summary: 3 Stars
Some of this movie may have been the basis for the film A Few Good Men. Robert Mitchum is a lieutenant colonel flown from Europe to India to be the defense attorney for an American lieutenant who murdered a British sergeant. He hasn't practiced any law for over 16 years and his primary defense witness, a doctor of phychiatry, has been transferred and his damaging report on the defendent suppressed by his superiors. The defendent is played by Keenan Wynn. The more his attorney speaks with him and others who knew him, the more convinced Mitchum becomes that the trial will not be fair and his defendant will be found guilty instead of insane. The rush to hang him is the excuse used to reduce tension between the British and American armies stationed in India.
The love interest for Mitchum is a nurse at the hospital played by France Nuyen. She becomes attracted to Mitchum and eventually they have a romance. But some of the scenes between them feel contrived. As she hugs him in one scene and when he is about to leave again at the end of the film she has no tears for him even though she tries.
At times the music is a little to melodramatic and does not really fit the scene. It is intended to dramatize a particular scene but is overdone. And of course there is the curstomary marching military band and patriotic music used in the film at some point.
The courtroom drama is pretty good, but the prosecuting attorney allows the defense attorney a lot of leeway to challenge its witnesses without any objections. The courtroom scenes in the Cane Mutiny are far better. The ending to this film leaves the audiance to speculate on whether the defendent is found guilty as the outcome of the trial is not shown or discussed.
Overall this is a pretty good film, but not a great film. The Cane Mutiny and A Few Good Men are still better films about flawed characters and military justice.