Walter Pidgeon News

The Other Worlds Film Series continues at the Harry Ransom Center with "Forbidden Planet" a 1956 science fiction film in CinemaScope and Metrocolor directed by Fred M. Wilcox and starring Walter Pidgeon, Anne Francis and Leslie Nielsen.

Duration: 2:13:46 CC TVG According to Winston Churchill, this drama about a middle-class English family learning to cope with WWII helped rally American support for the British allies, "doing more for the war effort than a flotilla of destroyers," despite its typical Hollywood depiction of British life.

If he were remembered only for his German films, Fritz Lang would still be counted a great director, but he also made a string of exceptional pictures when he came to Hollywood after fleeing the Nazis.

Here's a noirish spy yarn about a British hunter who has Adolf Hitler in his crosshairs, only to be captured by the Gestapo before he can pull the trigger.

On the eve of World War II, big-game hunter Alan Thorndike stalks Adolf Hitler. Things go wrong, and Thorndike becomes the quarry in a secret hunt through wilderness and city.

Well, in the case of two fascinating films that have just made their DVD debuts, they actually saved the the rest of Hitler from some people who wanted to do him in.

THE MOVIE: The 1941 film Man Hunt sounds like the kind of thing made just to give trivia buffs something to add to their repertoire.

AN English sportsman , dressed in the full gentleman-hunter uniform of corduroy jacket and puttees, moves silently through a dark Bavarian forest, a high-powered rifle in hand.