Great film, except for that very strange and sloppy shoot-up scene in the hideout apartment. In the seeming blink of an eye, everyone ends up shot and (mostly) dead, sprawled comically across overturned furniture, and with 'injuries' which look as if they were all spattered with spaghetti sauce. Did anyone find this once scene uncharacteristically inept?
shareI am watching now. A shot was issued, then Elisha Cook comes in to defend himself and then everyone is dead. Cannot blink there.
Movie great anyway.
Yeah that was weird. No way of knowing what happened exactly because it wasn't shown and we didn't get to hear anything either. Just blam blam from George and then he finds everyone else is dead and he understands he will probably be dead soon as well.
shareProbably a movie code thing in 1956. They had very strange rules back then for this sort of thing. Showing more might not have been permissible. George's shooting of his wife was filmed very differently than it would be today.
shareVal had a short-barreled 12-gauge shotgun loaded with quarter-inch buckshot. The pattern of shot presumably spread wide enough to hit everybody in the room. I don't think that would really happen within only ten to fifteen feet, but I'm willing to suspend my disbelief.
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