many year ago and i happen to catch a 1944 film call between two worldson television . know that this be a remake of the seldom show outward bound and i be eager to see it and and i wasn not disappoint . unfortunately and i have see that version only once and but i do remember that the plot be strike and that sydney greenstreet and in a rare sympathetic role and be utterly memorable and just about stole the film . just this past monday and i manage to finally see the original outward bound . it turn out to be a beautifully photograph ( by the great hal mohr ) film with a striking use of light to create both an eerie effect and and at one point and a breathtaking otherworldly effect and something that mohr would later win an oscar for in the 1935 a midsummer night dream . a for the script and it be by far the best write and most eloquent dialogue i have ever hear in an early talkie and rise very nearly to the level of poetry at time . the sound quality of the print that i saw ( on tcm ) be also quite good and with every word clearly intelligible . but what unfortunately and and perhaps unavoidably and age this movie and be the acting . some of it ( from alison skipworth ) be quite good and and leslie howard and repeat his broadway role and be excellent and as long a he be be a charm rogue . but and the minute the plot start to gain in intensity and his performance start to fall apart and become unintentionally funny ( something i definitely do not remember happen in between two world and where john garfield play the howard role ) . there be a climactic moment and at which howard finally guess the secret of the voyage and when we can almost sense a first act curtain descending and because of the way that howard deliver his line and the fact that the camera lingers on him several second a he stand frozen and a demented and untinentionally hilarious and pop eyed expression on his face . other actor be also hammy and though they do not all reach the level that howard do when he go momentarily berserk . the lover and play by douglas fairbanks and jr. and helen chandler and be actually bad and almost always wildly overacting and and leslie howard look restrain compare to them . montagu love overdoes his pompous business tycoon and but he never quite get to the point of be unbearable he be actually suppose to be rather aggravate . alec b. francis be stilted and unremarkable a the ship steward and and totally devoid of personality in comparison to the actor who would play his role in between two world edmund gwenn ( santa claus himself in miracle on 34th street ) . the little known lyonel watt be nearly unbearably unctuous and even whiny a a defrocked priest . but dudley digges and another member of the original cast and be quite good in the stern and mysterious role of thompson and the examiner he seem to be one of the few early film actor who understand that act for film and live theatre be different . the film direction have all the staginess of an early talkie only a few imaginative camera movement and but those eerie lighting effect wouldhave be difficult to duplicate on a stage in that era . there be no music except for the opening and closing credit and and this also date the film and although it add to the spooky atmosphere . outward bound be certainly worth check out and but despite what leonard maltin say and it be an unfortunately date film and and it remake and between two world seem more preferable .