Inferno (1953)

the audience applauded

Admirable film.

When a movie has you begging for it to end not even half way through it's pure crap. We've all seen this movie and this characters millions of times, nothing new in it. Don't waste your time.

To all those who have watched it: I hope you enjoyed it as much as I do.

Boy the reviews here are pretty strong for a mediocre crime/survival drama. It's worth watching but I don't get the love even though I'm a lifelong desert rat (on the other hand maybe that's why I'm unimpressed, the desert scenes are as over-dramatized as they are weak).Ryan does an OK job winning our sympathy once he's been out in the desert a while but the scenes where he's trying to move/climb/hunt are so hokey that it gets a bit comical. The actual best part IMO is the ridiculous melodrama of Fleming and Lundigan dealing with fear that someone will figure out what they did as their lust smolders back at the awesome vintage 50s motel.As for the 3D well I was never a fan (except for the so-bad-it's-awesome Treasure Of The Four Crowns) or the contrived ways most 3D films try and mix in an object headed at the screen but if you want to see someone throw a knuckle curve with a kerosene lantern, this is the movie for you!

Pass me a canteen, quick. I'm all dried out after watching this desert pressure cooker. Seems Carson's wife and her lover have left spoiled millionaire Carson alone in the vast desert to die, and with a broken leg, no less. Plus, that Mojave Desert is some kind of long, empty oven. So now the poor guy has to figure out how to survive under next to impossible conditions. Worse, the god-forsaken landscape stretches out to what looks like infinity. I sure hope actor Ryan was well paid because he literally drags his butt across half the rocky landscape. But Carson's one determined guy, and by golly he's going to get even with those two traitors even if it kills him.Only a powerhouse actor like Ryan could make Carson's grit, in the face of impossible odds, at all plausible. The screenplay does a pretty good job of showing how he improvises, still the ordeal itself remains something of a stretch. On the other hand, Lundigan makes a rather colorless "other man", while Fleming as the faithless wife looks unusually glum. I gather from IMDb that she caught a case of pneumonia on arrival at what was then a snowy Mojave location. Apparently, it carried over to her performance, which is without her usual sheen. Nonetheless, the flaming hair really looks good in Technicolor.The movie's a grabber right up to the climax, where the fist-fight is unfortunately overdone, apparently to accommodate the 3-d technology. All in all, the survival plot may have been done a number of times, but none better than here, thanks mainly to that great gritty actor, Robert Ryan.

I think Robert Ryan is one of the greatest actors of his time and its a shame that he seems to be forgotten in todays movie society, This is am excellent example of Ryans acting prowess and shows how the will to live is so strong despite being betrayed and abandoned in a place with out hope. I would say this is a must see for people interested in Robert Ryans acting and his excellent ability to make it all seem so real. I like the fact that he never gives up despite all the odds thrown against him when adultery alone makes most people lose the will to carry on. I have seen this movie twice now and have been riveted to the TV both times. Years ago having seen Robert Ryan in a few movies I thought he was OK but this movie proves he was much more than that and I look forward to discovering him in his other movies I have yet to see.

This is an engrossing movie that pulls you in. See it from the start. I do not believe it is on video at this time, but it shows up on TCM from time to time. Taught survival/double cross movie as the lead wakes up in the desert and must try to get to civilization with nothing. He has been betrayed by his wife and her lover.Robert Ryan is excellent in the lead.Some cinematic techniques like switching from desert to swimming pool are very effective counter points showing the wife and husband in diametrically opposed situations. Ultimately, this film is about a journey and attempt to survive.