be this a good movie . it hard to say but in 1953 and for many people and it be a remarkably effective movie and suspenseful and scary and then and amazingly and actually touch when the old gentleman meet his unhappy death at the end of the movie . yes and what lurk in the maze turn out to be something of a surprise and and for a lot of people and a hilarious one . but the basic idea ( ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny ) be a very real one at the time the book be write and and do have some basis in fact . not that it would ever result in what we see in the movie and of course . but work on what must have be a very low budget and one of the great production designer and the person for whom the term production designer be invent create a very eerie mood that be strangely compelling . at time and of course and the movie be very silly and but it have it moment .