I am formerly known as HillieBoliday....Member since May 2006
How positively irritating that George is so comfortably hanging out with Pauline! I just don't get it! Why are they so chummy, chummy....having just met each other....all while he's trying to get to a Honeymoon with the wife he's in love with! I guess it was essential to the plot.
"OOhhhooo....I'M GON' TELL MAMA!"
You read my mind! I was thinking why do these dark films always have a guy, who loves his wife, get involved with a woman he doesn't know and does stuff like go out drinking with her or go home with her? Then she always ends up murdered or blackmailing him for something she did. Stroud ends up picking up artwork with her??
MOJO2004
I am formerly known as HillieBoliday....Member since May 2006
Well.....mojo2004....they say that great minds think alike!
"OOhhhooo....I'M GON' TELL MAMA!"
Yeah, don't those guys ever go to the movies?
It always happens; what are they, chumps?
You Fill Me with Inertia
Yeah, don't those guys ever go to the movies?
It always happens; what are they, chumps?
You Fill Me with Inertia
I agree also. It made no sense that he had just thrown over his whole career on account of the honeymoon thing and then is an hour or two late to meet his wife, even though the woman he is with is quite attractive and sophisticated. I was not familiar with Rita Johnson. For a while I thought it was Geraldine Fitzgerald.
Well.....mojo2004....they say that great minds think alike!
Just saw another film on TCM. "Finger of Guilt' (1956) A man is being accused by a woman he's never met before of being her lover. He & his wife confront her and she continues to lie so the wife leaves. The husband then has the police interrogate but she doesn't change her story and nothing is revealed that proves she's lying, even though she is. So does he call his wife? No. He follows the woman who invites him into a pub for a drink and he goes in. At that point the wife sees him with the woman from her car. As mad as he is at the woman he also sees her home! What??
MOJO2004
In the Kenneth Fearing novel which was the source material, George actually spends an entire weekend having an affair with Pauline who is, interestingly for that era, bisexual.
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How Irritating!!! Possible Spoiler Alert!
I am formerly known as HillieBoliday....Member since May 2006
How positively irritating that George is so comfortably hanging out with Pauline! I just don't get it! Why are they so chummy, chummy....having just met each other....all while he's trying to get to a Honeymoon with the wife he's in love with! I guess it was essential to the plot.
I agree. He drinks with Pauline to the point that he loses track of time and misses the train - which he was so determined to catch that he agreed to being fired and blackballed. Then instead of taking the next train, he goes clubbing with Pauline and passes out at her place. The only reason I believe that he didn't bang her is because this was a 1948 movies, made before people (or at least movie characters) had genitals. Try explaining that to your wife who has waited seven years for her honeymoon. I've seen some people suggesting that Maureen O'Sullivan (whatever her character name was - I forget) was always nagging Ray Milland. Holy heck, I side with her - especially while he spent an evening with a floozy like that.
shareI agree. He drinks with Pauline to the point that he loses track of time and misses the train - which he was so determined to catch that he agreed to being fired and blackballed. Then instead of taking the next train, he goes clubbing with Pauline and passes out at her place. The only reason I believe that he didn't bang her is because this was a 1948 movies, made before people (or at least movie characters) had genitals. Try explaining that to your wife who has waited seven years for her honeymoon. I've seen some people suggesting that Maureen O'Sullivan (whatever her character name was - I forget) was always nagging Ray Milland. Holy heck, I side with her - especially while he spent an evening with a floozy like that.
shareAgreed. Just saw it again this weekend on Noir Alley and Eddie Mueller said that the novel it was based on had them having an actual affair. Had to tone it down to get it past the censors.
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