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The Most Disturbing Part Of This Movie

posted 11 years ago by joeparkson
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The Cutlers are still together at the end.Sticking the lovely Jean Peters with the massively unnappealing Casey Adams was a terrible thing to do.

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[–] PimpinAinttEasy 11 years ago

lol completely agree. PETERS and COTTON should have fallen in love and they should have both jumped off the waterfall in the end

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[–] vintage-13 8 years ago

You know now that you mention it that would have been BRILLIANT. That asshat husband of hers would have had it coming to be chanting to scuttle the boat but instead sees them on the boat kissing and they go over, choosing death with a sensitive man than going back to that knob!

[–] Prismark10 9 years ago

I think Peters was better off with her husband.

Its that man again!!

[–] Noir-It-All 8 years ago

Polly's husband probably avoided being drafted for the Korean war by being married in 1951.

[–] cultfilmfreaksdotcom 7 years ago

I didn't know the more wild LOOK SHE HAS BOOBIES gramps from 16 CANDLES was named Casey Adams.

I am watching this now and am enjoying the pure camp of the badness. I even bought it since I love the technicolor, and being an Orson Welles fanatic, anything with Jo Cotten is worth watching.

I agree though with the OP. Jean was too hot for Max Showalter, who is really, really bad in this movie. He's totally more suited to comedy films. He's great in them as he's a sort of human cartoon. But in a melodrama color-noir he's dead wrong.

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[–] Denis-64 (26) 7 years ago

Jean Peters was a gorgeous woman, and clearly her "Niagara" character was way too intelligent for Casey Adams--he treats her in a ridiculous manner, even for 1953!