Not Hitchcock's best

Rating: 6/10 (24 October 2014)

Barry Kane (Robert Cummings) is a worker at an aircraft plant in California. A fire is set killing his friend Mason. Frank Fry had given him a fire extinguisher which he handed to Mason. Only the extinguisher is filled with gasoline. They find no such worker named Fry and the cops come after Kane. Kane goes on the run and remembers the address on one of Fry's letters he picked up which leads to Charles Tobin (Otto Kruger)'s ranch. He escapes and kidnaps unbelieving Pat Martin (Priscilla Lane) on a wild adventure to stop Tobin and his cohorts.
It's a lot twists and turns from Hitchcock in America. There are also way too many people who choose to believe him despite being a fugitive from the police. Cummings is not nearly charismatic enough to lead the movie or convince all those people of anything. The adventure needs a lot more action in the middle. It's not Hitchcock's best effort but the final Statue of Liberty is pretty good. It does remind me of the superior 'North by Northwest'.