Wow! Such a good movie.

Memorable, crazy movie

best movie i've ever seen.

Best movie ever!

***SPOILERS*** While on a trip down Mexico way the Stilwins Helen Dough & Little Bobby, Barbara Stanwyck Berry Sullivan & Lee Aker, come upon this deserted little fishing village where little Bobby ends up getting his foot stuck on the pier. That while going fishing and checking out the scenic Gulf of Mexico. With his concerned father Dough going out to rescue him the pier, that was rotten to the core, collapse and parts of it lands on his leg pinning Dough to the ground with high tide about four hours away soon to engulf and drown him.It's Helen who takes off in the family car to get help but her not understanding Spanish in explaining the situation to the native Mexicans doesn't help her at all. It's then right out of nowhere that this man Lawson or convict #6105, Ralph Meeker, suddenly appears and offers to help. It turns out that this "Lawson" is anything but "Law" abiding in taking Helen hostage and threatens to murder her if she as much as opens her mouth to the police that have the area roads blocked. It turns out that He just escaped from prison and in fact murdered the owner of the hardware store that Helen went to get a rope to save her husband Dough from drowning.It's then what turned out to be a strange cat and mouse game between both Lawson and Helen in both trying to escape the local police and at the same time save Helen's husbands life. In the end , after Helen tried to brain with a lead pipe, Lawson finally agrees to help save Dough as well as Bobby's lives at the expense of him getting captured by the Mexican police and even facing a firing squad for his actions. Why Lawson did this is never explained since he had no love for Helen after all then she did to him and in return, in him smacking her around, what he did to her.***SPOILERS*** All of a sudden Lawson turned into a genuine good guy doing everything he could to save Dough's life and in the end succeeding in it while the Mexican police, one of which ended up crushed under his squad car, were out to arrest him. The films completely off the wall ending,this in 1953 with the Hollywood strict system of crime does not pay endings, has Lawson get away Scot-free with the help of Helen, one of his victims, giving him cover. That is about the only fact that makes the film both watchable and an oddity of the time that it was released.

With a movie-tagline like - "She did it - Because her fear was greater than her shame." - Along with a movie-quote like "I'll do anything to save my husband - Anything!" - You can be sure that when it comes to the words "it" & "anything" they were clearly referring to one thing, and only one thing, alone. (nudge. nudge. wink. wink.) With this above-average, "race-against-time" Thriller from 1953, I have to admit that, at first, I didn't think I'd like it all that much, especially since it starred one of my least favourite actresses from that era, Barbara Stanwyck.But once they actually got to the real meat-n-potatoes of the story, Jeopardy actually cooked (at a fairly steady boil) and held my interest for the entire latter half of its brisk 69-minute running time.Yes. I agree that the youthful and virile-looking Ralph Meeker certainly made for a very convincing and brutally aggressive, escaped convict. Yet, by the same token, it was the likable performance by 10-year-old Lee Aaker, as Bobby Stilwin, who I felt shone just as brightly as Meeker's star.As a young boy eagerly trying to help his father (who was clearly in dire straits), Aaker obviously had a very firm understanding of his character and never once over-played his part as "the cute, little kid".As an added bonus, Jeopardy certainly contained lots of very well-shot scenery along the Baja California peninsula.Besides Jeopardy's story starting out like something of a typical, Disney, family-time picture, my only real beef about this film's plot-line has to do with the Lawson character showing up at such an isolated location as that of the most southerly tip of this 775-mile-long jut of untamed land in Mexico. If you ask me, no escaped convict (in his right mind) would ever make himself such a sitting duck by venturing out to a place where he could so easily be cornered and hunted down by the law.

What a great Barbara Stanwyck film that I happened to see the other night. "Jeopardy" was fantastic. It was made in 1953 and probably for double bills but it kept me on the edge of my seat.Barbara Stanwyck plays Helen, who with husband Doug (Barry Sullivan) and son (Lee Aaker) drive to an isolated fishing spot in Mexico for a vacation. Husband has a fall from the jetty and the only way he is to be saved is if Barbara drives back to a garage for some rope.While there she runs into a psychotic killer (Ralph Meeker - one of my favourites) and what follows is a game of cat and mouse as Barbara tries everything in her power to get Meeker to come back with her to free her husband.The film was so suspenseful and such a surprise - I was not expecting such a great film. But I suppose I should have realized - is there anything Barbara Stanwyck does that is anything less than wonderful?

I found this movie to be suspenseful almost from the get-go. When Miss Stanwyck starts her narration it's only a few minutes until you realize that trouble is coming. The deserted area, the lock on the deserted gas station door, everything sets you up to wait for it...here it comes. At first you think it will be about the little boy, but all too soon you start holding your breath watching the tide coming in. I found this movie to be really stressful, even though I had watched it before and was prepared for the denouement. Now a movie that can keep you in suspense even when you have seen it before deserves some sort of special rating, maybe a white knuckles award?