great cast... Stanwyck, Cotton, Backus, Caron. Markle only directed FOUR films, and was given mostly TV projects, acc to IMDB. there ARE some clever lines, but its a period piece, so it had a strike against it before it started. Stanwyck even SINGS a song (kind of). Gets better as it goes along. stick around to the end.
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I liked it pretty well. Stanwyck fans have to see it because it contains one of her best moments: She laughs contemptuously at Joe De Santis just before he shuts her up with a kiss.
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How is being a period piece "a strike against it"?
shareI enjoyed it, tremendously. It has a "TV-feel" to it, but the dialogue sparkles, as does the cast. Stanwyck is quite one-dimensional but her icy coolness is just what the part demands. Cotten could not be improved upon, IMHO. Again: very enjoyable.
shareSo glad I stuck with it! I was just thinking this morning there were a lot of Stanwyck movies I didn't know so I turned it on. It was so different, seemingly formulaic, like it was pieced together from stories of the era and then the payoff in the end. The mystery was almost a red herring. Full of great performances in timeless characters. I specially liked Jim Backus. What fun!
shareStarts slow and gets better, that's just right. At one point I found myself thinking all it needed was Orson Welles.
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The screenplay is by Frank Fenton, who also did "Walk Softly, Stranger", another movie with some fantastic dialogue. He also wrote a couple of well-received books that are impossible to find.
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