Comwayon A Disappointing Continuation

Usamah Harvey The film's masterful storytelling did its job. The message was clear. No need to overdo.

Yash Wade Close shines in drama with strong language, adult themes.

Ortiz Excellent and certainly provocative... If nothing else, the film is a real conversation starter.

vincentlynch-moonoi First off, there are two things that annoyed in this film. Jeanne Crain wore a mink coat for much of the film. Just seems odd that in a crisis she'd be running around the ship in a mink. And, she was too borderline hysterical for much of the film...although I guess in a way that played into the plot. But I prefer my screen actresses to have enough guts to pull themselves together as they work to solve their mysteries. I don't attribute either of these annoyances to Jeanne Crain (who in my view can do almost no wrong), but rather to director Joseph Newman...and perhaps to the time of the film -- 1953 -- when women were supposed to be helpless without a husband and every woman wanted a mink coat (at least they all did on "Queen For A Day"!).Aside from those two annoyances, I very much liked this film, and that it was filmed on the same sets as "Titanic" (Clifton Webb and Barbara Stanwyck), which was made the same year.Now, in regard to the plot, if you read message boards on IMDb about this film, dismiss them. Those mentioned are almost all because the viewer either didn't pay attention to parts of the film or because they ignored certain factors. For example, one of our reviewers asked if Betz wouldn't be recognized when he claimed the estate. No...he was acting for a relative who would claim the estate! Actually, except for the two concerns I had at the beginning of my review, this film had a pretty good plot. I agree with another poster that Hitchcock could have done even more with this story...but, Hitchcock wasn't the director. Admittedly, there are a couple of places where just one or two more lines of dialog could have made things clearer.Jeanne Crain is as lovely here as ever...and just as good an actress...I just wish the director hadn't wanted her to be quite as hysterical (although that gets her locked in her cabin, which is essential to the story). I enjoyed Michael Rennie; here he is the ship's doctor. Rennie is good here...good as the good guy, although there is a moment when you suddenly think he's in on the crime. Max Showalter was a staple at 20th Century Fox at the time this film was made, but often (as here) he's simply used as a way to advance the plot, rather than getting into any character development. However, he was a dependable character actor. Despite having a key role, we see little of Carl Betz (as in "The Donna Reed Show"); he does his job as the bad-guy-husband. Mary Anderson as a stewardess was fairly good, although I kept trying to place some other role she had played in another film (but I never succeeded). Willis Bouchey, here as the ship's captain, is always a welcome presence in any film; another very capable character actor. Yvonne Peattie as Miss Bridges Though not perfect, this is darned good film noir mystery, and I recommend it for any one who likes the genre, and especially for fans of Jeanne Crain.

howardmorley I could only award this film 4/10 as I found it very irritating on several counts, (despite unfettered praise from nearly all your other reviewers).Perhaps the screenwriter, Leo Townsend, should be blamed as he made the character of Ruth (Jeanne Crain) needy, neurotic, paranoid, melodramatic and rather wet.I brightened up when Dr Paul Manning (Michael Rennie) slapped her face to bring her to her senses at one stage.Also irritating was the stock footage of "The Queen Mary" posing as an American cruise liner, the producer should have picked a less recognisable vessel as it grated on me to hear American crew accents on a British liner! I disliked how Jeanne Crain's character kept drawing attention to herself and monopolising nearly all the time of the ship's doctor.When did Dr Paul Manning find time for his other patients?Jeanne Crain's character in this film continued to give women a bad name, being pathetic, standing on the sidelines while the "baddie" grappled with the "goodie" by the ship's rail at the denouement.The evil stewardess' character was insufficiently dramatised.Ruth obviously should have lived with her fiancée much longer to learn about his true character.As a previous reviewer stated "Marry in haste - Repent at leisure".The director/producer must also take a large part of the blame for this "B" picture.

MikeMagi "Dangerous Crossing" is based on a story (actually a radio play) by John Dickson Carr, the master of the locked room mystery. But there's no locked room and the mystery is more in the vein of Cornell Woolrich, arguably the "father" of film noir. As in some of Woolrich's best tales, the story begins with a sudden twist of fate. Moments after Jeanne Crain as a new bride boards a luxury liner on her honeymoon, the groom vanishes. No one has seen him. Their stateroom is listed as unoccupied. Even Michael Rennie as the sympathetic ship's doctor (who's clearly smitten by her) suspects that her missing husband is a figment of her imagination. Still, there are some very odd people skulking the boat's fog-shrouded decks -- and when the answer comes, it's ingenious. Thankfully, the movie was made in the early 1950s so there was no problem bringing it in at a swift 75 minutes. Today, it would be padded out to the requisite two hours and the suspense would escape like air from a punctured tire. Credit Joseph Newman with smart direction (including an opening dockside scene worthy of Michael Curtiz,) making maximum use of the sets Fox built to serve as the Titanic. In short, a thoroughly entertaining grade B thriller.

whpratt1 This story starts off with a newly married couple who are going on a cruise liner and Ruth Stanton Bowman, (Jeanne Crain) is the bride who is very happy until her husband disappears and there is no record of him being aboard the ship. This horrible news to the bride caused her to go crazy driving the entire crew to go around in circles to try and help Ruth. There is a haunting sound of a ship's fog horn going on constantly giving the film a very mysterious effect. Michael Rennie and Jeanne Crain gave outstanding performances along with many other famous veteran actors. You will have a hard time trying to figure out how the film will end, except the Fog Horns finally stopped.