THE NET
(Rank-Two Cities) [HE NET is a brisk, taut piece of melodrama (produced by Antony Darnborough and directed by Anthony Asquith), which will inevitably remind you of The Sound Barrier. And if you are content to accept melodrama, smoothly purveyed and accompanied at times by exciting photography, then you should enjoy this almost as anuch. Dramatically, it doesn’t aim so high as The Sound Barrier-the human relationships are subordinated to the excitements of sabotage and counter-intelli-gence-but on the other hand, the sky is something less than the limit where Professor James Donald’s hyper-super-sonic fighter is concerned. To ‘the conventional jet engine, nuclear reactors have been added and where the old Hawker Hunter creaked along at Mach 1, Mach 3 is nothing to the new prototype. It can stand a 5G turn, too. As in the earlier film. the most breathtaking sequences of The Net are the aerial ones (the Mach 3 touch is most effectively contrived) and the cameramen under Desmond Dickinson, undoubtedly take the honours. But it’s a pretty smooth show all round and exciting enough to keep your feet braced. tight against the seat in front.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 31, Issue 789, 3 September 1954, Page 16
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189THE NET New Zealand Listener, Volume 31, Issue 789, 3 September 1954, Page 16
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