Operation Manhunt

1954
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1h 17m

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Soviet Embassy clerk Igor Gouzenko defected to Canada in 1945 with secret documents, exposing Russian spy networks.Soviet Embassy clerk Igor Gouzenko defected to Canada in 1945 with secret documents, exposing Russian spy networks.Soviet Embassy clerk Igor Gouzenko defected to Canada in 1945 with secret documents, exposing Russian spy networks.

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6.1/10

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6/10

Laudable B&W photography, scanty script, wooden acting

I know next to nothing about the merits of Director Jack Alexander, but on the evidence of watching OPERATION MANHUNT I must sadly concede that only the very clear and focused B&W photography stayed with me. Albeit simple, straight forward cinematography by Benoit Jobin and Akos Arkas, you get to see the architectural beauty of Ottawa and Montreal, and facial closeups are well done.

That plus aside, there is no much to recommend this film: the actors struck me as rather amateurish, their delivery contrived and wooden, and the script kept repeating the status of Gouzenko. Not that there was excessive dialogue, but far too many sequences with actors strolling around cold streets do nothing to prevent some monotony setting in.

A script short of ideas and seemingly not sure where it is heading cannot possibly serve any film well - OPERATION suffers from it and a quite a few other shortcomings., including some 10-15 minutes longer than it needed to be.

I doubt I will revisit it. 6/10.