This is an interesting film that I recently discovered whilst making a trawl through You Tube. It’s got quite an odd plotline for a film of its type. It revolves around an English hunter, Captain Alan Thorndike played by Walter Pigdeon who whilst in German prior to the outbreak of World War II finds himself with the possibility of being able to get a clear rifle shot at Adolf Hitler.

Thorndike looks at Hitler through the telescopic sight, pulls the trigger on his unloaded gun and gives the Fuhrer a cheery wave. Thorndike then decides to put a live round in the chamber of his rifle and pulls the trigger, hoping to end the life of the dictator. Unfortunately, Thorndike was spotted by a Nazi guard and the shot goes wild.

Thorndike is arrested and taken before a senior Nazi officer played by George Sanders, and beaten up by Nazi thugs. He tells the senior officer, Major Quive-Smith, that he wasn’t trying to kill Hitler and was only engaged on what he called ‘a sporting stalk’. Quive-Smith, who is also a hunter and admires Thorndike and his hunting ability, half believes this ‘sporting stalk’ story but tries to get Thorndike to sign a confession that he was indeed trying to kill Hitler.

Thorndike escapes from the Nazis and from Germany itself and makes his way to Britain where he is pursued by German agents and is assisted by a young woman, Jerry Stokes, played by Joan Bennett.

I won’t say much more in case I give too much of the plotline away, but suffice to say the German agents take every opportunity to try to capture Thorndike and he swaps places and instead of being the hunter, he himself becomes the potential prey of the Nazis.

I enjoyed this movie and hope you enjoy it too.