This film could have been much better. It's fatal flaw was in the way the story was revealed through extended flashback. This device defeats the purpose of creating suspense in real time. We KNOW the antagonist will survive to meet the priest (a great job of casting eternal bad guy, Victor Jory, as a priest). This kills all the possibility of other outcomes. The fim is a bit talky and is short on action as well. It tries to be a great saga instead of a simple story, and that is the final nail in the coffin for this film. Lew Ayres and Teresa Wright try to save it, but it DOA.
Review of The Capture
