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Post by Deleted on Feb 10, 2017 10:26:58 GMT
The film-noir world is bigger than I thought.
And you know what? Sometimes it saddens me to know that the greatest film-noir are the one no one heard about.
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Post by london777 on Mar 13, 2017 13:38:29 GMT
Worth watching. Once.
I saw this movie over seventy years ago as a very small child. All I later remembered was the futuristic clifftop house and as I gradually became a film enthusiast it haunted me but I could never identify the movie. No internet boards in those days! Finally acquired it by chance in a bargain set of old movies a few years ago. Phew! I can now die untroubled in my mind!
Someone posted on IMDB that the real star of the film is the house. My enduring childhood memory would seem to endorse that view.
Also someone queried on IMDb whether it was really Film Noir. I think, despite its comparatively late date, it is a hybrid Noir. The baffled hero/antihero doubting his own sanity is found in gothic melodramas as well as in Noir, while the sunlit affluence of the main characters is a nation away from any dark urban underbelly and harks back to what I call "posh people's problems" dramas of the 1930s. "Laura" is like that, but was made six years earlier, so was innovative not derivative.
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Post by telegonus on May 20, 2018 17:19:26 GMT
I caught The Second Woman a few years back and liked it. Dark and awfully gloomy, Robert Young held my interest in the leading role, as I didn't know quite what to make of him. There was always that ambiguity to Young: soft on the outside, hard at the core; not a two fisted tough guy, but no pushover; refined and yet bourgeois; sharp, educated seeming, seldom an intellectual. Young's persona rather set the tone for the entire film. He drew me in, more out of curiosity than sympathy. Good as it was I can't help but wonder why the movie got made. It could never have been a blockbuster. I wouldn't call it a B, either. Worth watching, though.
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