I just watched this movie on YouTube for one reason and one reason only: To see an early Dorothy Dandridge performance. She appears in the beginning about to be married to a man named Kipsang. She has no lines but director Henry Hathway gives her a couple of close-ups so we can see how beautiful she truly was. But because of her color, she would not become a star until she eventually took the lead role in Otto Preminger's Carmen Jones some 13 years after this film. As for the film itself, it's got some good action but it's mostly many officers like those played by Bruce Cabot and George Sanders talking lots of expository lines and I really couldn't understand them so part of me was almost bored at the whole thing. Good thing an Italian prisoner-of-war named Pallini (Joseph Calleia) provides some character flavor and Gene Tierney as a friend of his some more alluring close-ups. So on that note, Sundown is at least worth a look.
