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My Wife Just Died...

posted 10 years ago by jmiller1918
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...do you think the Big Boss would understand if I went home for an hour or two?"

Seriously, the hero played by George Brent must either have the best work ethic on record or the weakest of marital affections.

He gets news the wife is dead...(don't have him sit down first before breaking this news). He immediately attends to some minor business in the office; leaves for about an hour; comes BACK and does more office work. The day of the dearly departed's funeral finds him at work first thing in the a.m., clearly prepared to minimize any time away from the office.

This is actually a somewhat fun movie, with a gorgeous Diana Dors, and a nice quaint bookshop atmosphere, but the logic is frequently skewed, at times it almost seems to take place in some sort of dream, void of conscious reasoning, moving inexorably if illogically forward.

[–] ZolotoyRetriever 10 years ago

it almost seems to take place in some sort of dream, void of conscious reasoning

Too true! There were several points in the story where I wondered to myself if these people weren't living in a sort of strange, parallel reality.

[–] josephnatescott 9 years ago

"at times it almost seems to take place in some sort of dream" Not defending this film particularly, but that was how the '40s chillers that got renamed "film noir" often were: it seemed like Tom Neal's or Robert Mitchum's bad dream.

[–] adamwarlock 7 years ago

It does seem odd but this was the 50s and in Britain. Work ethic, no showing of emotion, take your mind off of worries by working, etc. Bosses were probably not as sympathetic as they are now, today you have a bad mood and the boss lets you go home.

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