TIME BOMB (1953) ** Not terribly done, if you don't count the plot, but not particularly entertaining or stressful. I mean, I have no doubt that there are plenty of terrorists dumb enough to get caught leaving the scene of the crime with a pocket full of detonators, but was law enforcement ever so naive as to have innocent villagers return to the site where a load of explosives, known to be tampered with and not completely checked out, are? Well, maybe, certainly things have been written about the Alfred P. Murrah building in Oklahoma City. Glenn Ford is believable as the "boring businessman," and Anne Vernon quasi-spectacular as the French existentialist during the scene where she accuses him of it. Then the film is slow enough to leave you wondering if that's how it happens to them-they think the girl is into material stuff, so they cut the material deal for a bummer job, then she gets bored of all the stuff and blames 'em for it? Ancient Athens hath no tragedy like modern typicality. I would have liked a bit more insight into the politics of the terrorist, I mean, was he a loner, or a loser, or a doper, an early opponent of the Balfour Resolution, or part of a secret society...? Don't tell me that they have time to spend on the train station coffee lothario, but none for stuff like that.
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