"The Last Angry Man"

Paul Muni. a notable star of Hollywood in the 1930's ("Scarface," "The Good Earth," etc), has reappeared after an absence of seven years in the film "The Last Angry Man" (IV). More of a one-man show and a disguised tribute to Muni the actor, the movie is somewhat pretentious. Indeed, were it not for some fine photography by James Wong Howe, who did his work on location in Brooklyn, the movie would lose its chief mainstay and probably collapse about the producer's ears.

In the main roles. Paul Muni, David Wayne and Luther Adler give mixed performances. Both Wayne and Adler as the T.V. executive and the doctor's friend give competent performances; both are well cast. Of Muni it can only be said that the script does not do him justice, nor does he do the film justice; whose fault this I do not know (it probably isn't Muni's —he can't avoid getting old). As the film has all the exterior appearances of being a story about one man, played by one man, it is a disappointment. Also, technically, the movie is not up to much —there is some erratic continuity which should never have been passed.