The best films of this genre always show a path and provide a takeaway for being a better person.

While it doesn't offer any answers, it both thrills and makes you think.

what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.

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

When in the middle of this film, Lloyd Bridges asks about a certain clue, "What do you make of it?", you may, like me, expect the flamboyant Johnny from "Airplane!" to jump in and say, "A hat, a broach, a pterodactyl!". Yes, like Peter Graves, Robert Stack and Leslie Nielsen, the Bridges patriarch started off in dramatic roles, yet found his niche in spoofing his own image through comedy. It is difficult to separated him from these roles even though he originally played either heavies or action heroes before changing his image by stating, "Looks like I picked the wrong week to stop sniffing glue!" Here, he's all serious, an American visiting England who was at the airport when a sniper shot a mystery man who turns out to be the other man in a triangle with Bridges' estranged girlfriend (Moira Lister). Bridges learns the truth and details about his girlfriend's secret life that leads him into all sorts of intrigue.American stars in British film noir and thrillers added a smooth touch to the stiff upper lip pretense of the English in all sorts of parts, good and evil, and the results could be very mixed at times. The Hammer Noir was decidedly mixed, and this ranks among them as an acceptable, if unremarkable, thriller with moments of tension and other sequences sometimes dull and slowly paced. Bridges stands out like a sore thumb among the rest of the cast, and if it wasn't for some crafty dark photography, this might well have fallen below the mark.So try to put aside your desire to quote him from "Airplane!" or the "Hot Shots" movies and instead, take a trip into the dives of London, Music Halls and pups and let Bridges remind you of what a serious actor he used to be before a diving suit and the Zucker Brothers changed his image forever.

Lloyd Bridges stars in this British film. The film begins with him arriving in London to see his sweetheart who he hasn't seen since the war ended six years ago. On the tarmac, a shot rings out and the man next to Bridges is killed by a sniper! The rest of the film is a mystery—with lots of twists and turns. It's all reasonably good---even though several times, Bridges tries to work out the case himself instead of just letting the police do their job (a film cliché). But then…the ending. How can a mystery end so badly?! I could easily say a lot more—but don't want to in case you see it. However, before the twist ending, I would have given the film a 6 or possibly a 7—but it was SO bad, I think a 4 is perhaps a bit generous. Well acted but seriously undone by bad writing.By the way, if you do watch it, get a load of the weird night club acts. The singing magic act and the odd xylophone routine certainly seemed odd!

An enjoyable piece of film. Considering where the anticipated ending was going, the twist ending was a nice piece of work. Much of the mystery is left open for discussion. Why was the kindly stage door manager the killer? Was the Ex-husband disguising himself as the stage door manager all along and if so why didn't the ex-wife see through the disguise at the pub? Are rifles disguised as walking sticks common? Maybe the stage door manager was a professional hit man and it was pure coincidence that the victim knew the ex-husband? Perhaps there were two limping men, the stage door manager and the professional hit man. So the story has some holes in it, it was fun to watch and make fun of while watching.

Some play with the mystery thriller form—they add, accordingly, some lyricism, or stylization, or gritty toughness.THE LIMPING MAN seems in fact a rather average mystery movie, without additives (such as the poetry of some melodramas or the stylization or the grittiness); and it's not the most exciting or suspenseful and eventful thriller. I have found this flick below its excellent reputation, yet clean. Understood as a clean, straightforward 'divertissement, it's good.Lloyd Bridges plays the leading character, perhaps he's not necessarily one of my favorite actors, Moira Lister is his girlfriend, and a beautiful one, though some might find her face a little too masculine.