Next review in her book is Across the Bridge. Another one I haven't seen.
Across the Bridge 1957
Graham Greene's protagonist is a crooked international financier (Rod Steiger) who runs to Mexico and the film is one long chase after this disintegrating quarry. Ken Annakin directs this English production, photographed in Spain, which some English critics regarded as their best thriller since The Third Man. (There may not have been much competition.) If the film had sustained the tension of its opening scenes the comparison with The Third man might be apt, but the middle of the picture (and it's an extended middle) falls apart. It was invented by the screenwriters, Guy Elmes and Denis Freeman, who filled out Greene's 1938 short story. Steiger gives a dominating performance; Bill Nagy plays Scarff, whose identity the financier takes, not knowing the Scarff is a revolutionary, who is wanted in Mexico. Noel Willman is the vicious police chief; David Knight and Maria Landi are young lovers (she is beautiful, he is dreary).Posted by sheila