Please don't spend money on this.

Disturbing yet enthralling

I really wanted to like this movie. I feel terribly cynical trashing it, and that's why I'm giving it a middling 5. Actually, I'm giving it a 5 because there were some superb performances.

Clever and entertaining enough to recommend even to members of the 1%

This thriller moves at a snail's pace towards its very predictable conclusion.The first half of the film dwells on differences between American and British court procedures.This film was not only the swan song Of Robert Montgomery but also Leslie Banks.There is a brief glimpse of Stanley Baker at the early stages of his career.It is difficult though to realise that the Robert Montgomery who directed this film is the same one who directed the impressive Lady In the Lake.The fact that this was his last film wad probably more to do with the fact that he had bigger fish to fry.In any event at his age he was unlikely to attract many leading roles.Produced by Hitchcock colleague Joan Harrison.

If this was Robert Montgomery's last film appearance, I'm really depressed. What happened to the sparkling, witty, dapper earlier Montgomery of "Private Lives" and films of that period? Of course, "Eye Witness" didn't have a script by Noel Coward; yet, we expect more, much more than we get here. Mr. Montgomery walks, often plods, though his role with limp attempts at wit in exchanges that focus repetitively on stereotypical differences in language and culture between Brits and Yanks. Bor-ing! and puzzling since Montgomery's character had been in England during the War.While some of the performances were good, even they couldn't save the film from its comatose script and unimaginative direction and camera-work. The film is shot as though there was only one camera and with few closeups or varied angles. All in all, a disappointment.

Robert Montgomery's final screen appearance,which he also directed,is a slow moving mystery which spends far too much of the running time on irrelevant scenes pointing up the supposed differences between the British and American character. Montgomery meets a gallery of UK stereotypes such as garrulous publican,dim witted police sergeant and stuffy judge.The plot concerns RM travelling to England to help clear an old army buddy of a murder charge. There is some mild suspense during the last twenty minutes when the identity of a secret witness is revealed. Leading lady Patricia Cutts (called Patrcia Wayne here) is one of those rather horsey English blondes with a cut glass accent. Her acting is rather stilted and there is little chemistry between her and Montgomery. It's a far cry from his wonderful acting/direction job on Lady In The Lake.