"They're getting a rope . . . "

Rating: 8/10 (24 August 2013)

" . . . hang on, Fry!", shouts Robert Cummings' character, Barry Kane, to actor Norman Lloyd, playing the title role, as the latter dangles by his sleeve (which Kane is grasping) from the torch of America's Statue of Liberty in New York Harbor. After Fry has turned Kane's best friend at the war plane plant into a crispy critter and transformed Kane into his personal patsy\Public Enemy #1, pursued by multiple police agencies as he himself pursues the real killer in a way O.J. never did, it would be more appropriate if the last words Fry ever hears are "They're getting a rope; hang him high!" Of course, in real life, U-boats dropped off multiple Nazis on America's East Coast during WWII with instructions to become saboteurs, but G-men tracked them down and our hanging president, FDR, strung them up. Apparently, when SABOTEUR director Alfred Hitchcock moved from London to Hollywood during the Battle of Britain to escape German bombers during WWII, he caught the bleeding heart disease endemic there, then and now. Fortunately for movie audiences, Fry wore cheap suits.