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2012-05-24 17:53:23

"Betrayed (1954) ... Gable/Turner/Mature ... Gottfried Reinhardt (Director) (2009)"

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) presents "BETRAYED" (1954) - (108 min/B&W) -- Starring: Clark Gable, Lana Turner, Victor Mature, Louis Calhern & Wilfrid Hyde-WhiteDirected by Gottfried ReinhardtDuring World War II, intelligence agent Col. Pieter Deventer (Clark Gable) is ordered to keep tabs on suspected Nazi collaborator Carla Van Oven (Lana Turner). Both Pieter and Carla join the Dutch underground, making contact with a flamboyant resistance leader known as "The Scarf" (Victor Mature). Carla poses as a sexy chanteuse, the better to gain the confidence of the lascivious Nazi officers. Within the next few weeks, several underground operatives are captured and shot, and it begins to look as though Pieter's suspicions concerning Carla are correct. The real collaborator is revealed some twenty minutes before the finale, but the suspense level is expertly maintained throughout. The location-filmed Betrayed would later be mercilessly lampooned in the 1984 spy spoof Top Secret!Gable, Turner and Mature - not one of their best outings...but still watchable.Special footnote: -- Clark Gable's last picture under his MGM contract. He first signed with the studio in 1930 (he'd first appeared at the studio as an extra in The Merry Widow). By the 1950's his box office was spotty and MGM found it difficult to justify his $500,000 per year salary. Gable too was anxious to enter into far more lucrative percentage deals and would do so exclusively for the remaining 6 years of his life. Although the movie proved to be a critical and commercial failure, Clark Gable was able to remain a Top 10 Box Office attraction for 1954 thanks to a successful re-release of Gone with the Wind.BIOS:1. Gottfried Reinhardt [aka: Gottfried Goldmann] (Director)Date of Birth: 20 March 1913 - Berlin, GermanyDate of Death: 19 July 1994 - Los Angeles, California2. Clark GableDate of birth: 1 February 1901 - Cadiz, Ohio,Date of death: 16 November 1960 - Los Angeles, California3. Lana TurnerDate of Birth: 8 February 1921 - Wallace, IdahoDate of Death: 29 June 1995 - Century City, California4. Victor MatureDate of Birth: 29 January 1913 - Louisville, KentuckyDate of Death: 4 August 1999 - Rancho Santa Fe, CaliforniaMr. Jim's Ratings:Quality of Picture & Sound: 3 StarsPerformance: 3 StarsStory & Screenplay: 3 StarsOverall: 3 Stars [Original Music, Cinematography & Film Editing]Total Time: 108 min on DVD ~ Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) ~ (June 22, 2009)

2012-05-24 01:38:48

Betrayed

This review is from: Betrayed (1954) (DVD) I enjoy itvery much a well made movie. I do like old movie I give it 4 stars

2012-05-22 23:01:09

Review the film and not the quality of the transfer, please!

First, I did not buy this product but 'burned' a DVD off the TCM channel and am watching the film at the moment for the 3rd time or so - this has some of my favorites, i.e. Clark Gable & Lana Turner - Gable despite coming to the end of his career is still great! And, Louis Calhern, another one of my favorite character actors - often one does not realize he is even in a movie (e.g. the uncle in 'High Society' w/ Crosby, Kelly, Sinatra, et al).Second, I would probably rate this film 4* - but the ridiculous 1* rating from one reviewer has wrongly downgraded the overall average deserved. Amazon does not give one an option to rate various aspects of a film (or a musical CD) - this film is excellent regardless of the 'quality' (or lack of it) of the reproduction which is a completely different issue.

GManfred 2012-05-22 09:22:21

Lousy Film Noir

This picture sounds a lot better than it actually is. Given the bigname cast and Director, expectations are high but it doesn't deliver.One big flaw is the storyline, which is completely preposterous andwith some of the most absurd contrived coincidences in the annals ofmysteries. 'Betrayed' is disguised as a film noir but it is a feebleattempt at melodrama using 40 watt light bulbs to create film noirambiance. (for the record, I've tried 6 times to spell ambiance thecorrect way, -ence, but the website won't take it).I think the main culprit is Castle, who allows his story to stop atunexplained dead ends and manufactures situations for his players whichdon't hold water and make good actors look bad. And there is not onelick of tension or suspense in any scene in the picture.It is a Monogram production and the lack of a big budget isunderstandable, but comparisons between Castle and Hitchcock arelaughable. With such material, Hitchcock could have gotten at least anAcademy Award nomination - or at least a coherent plot.Can't recommend it, and if you get a chance to see it, miss it. Or,catch it and see if you, too, feel IMDb's present rating of 6.8 is wayoff the mark.

chaos-rampant 2012-05-22 17:49:10

The grinning black piano player

Film noir at the time wasn't the solid genre we can identify inretrospect, and didn't even have the name yet, but there were manysemi-conscious efforts like this. It is wholly ordinary in the longrun, probably echoing the previous year's Shadow of a Doubt; she hasmarried a man who is really a stranger to her and may be the killersought by police.The interesting thing is getting to identify strange dreams filmmakerswere having and weren't quite sure what about. One thing was for sure;anxiety in the air, a sense of hidden machinations behind the world.Two aspects strike some spark here, both better refined elsewhere butworth mentioning.Fluid identities; there is a second man involved, also a salesman, thesame build, same height, same suit as who police are looking for, alsovying for affections of the innocent country-girl fresh to New York,who might have been the husband if a letter had reached her in time.Both men are worldly and have a hint of darkness in the eye, betweenthem is the wide-eyed girl, eager to love and trust, but suspectingsomething is not quite right here and this is not the same kind of lifeas back in Ohio.The second is synchronous overlaps; this is where reality acquiresshades of meaning based on internal life the viewer knows. Look for thescene where she opens the blinds in her hotel room to the New Yorknight and a neon sign flashes 'DANCE' in her face. Swing music reachesout to her from somewhere, suddenly a phone rings but she can't quitemake out what is being said to her.The rest is a lot of wandering in and out of hotels, bus stations,cars, court-rooms, and even a black joint in Harlem. But is exhaustive,lacking any structure beyond attempts for a desperate getaway.Also notice the montage of superimposed shots from around New York;this would have been an avant-garde flourish 15 years ago, here it hassaturated as low as a Monogram b-movie.

bmacv 2012-05-22 07:42:58

A tight, tense little thriller that helped consolidate the noir cycle

Like My Name is Julia Ross, another quick-and-dirty damsel-in-distressmovie, When Strangers Marry helped lay down the blueprints for what wouldcome to be called film noir. Kim Hunter has just wed a patron (Dean Jagger)of the restaurant where she waited tables without knowing much about him;off on a vague business trip, he asks her to meet him at a New York hotel. His evasive actions are enough to raise suspicions even in a naive Ohio gallike her -- he makes her wander the streets of wartime Greenwich Village atnight (as she did a year earlier in Val Lewton's The Seventh Victim). Anold man-pal (the very young Robert Mitchum) happens to turn up to keep aneye on her strange marriage in the big bad city. But there are recurringlinks to the silk-stocking murder of a businessman in Philadelpia a few daysbefore.... William Castle, best known as a 1950s schlockmeister (13 Ghosts,et al.) shows himself to be a keen apprentice here: There's a sceneinvolving a glass-paned hotel mail chute that is almost Hitchcockian.

MARIO GAUCI 2012-05-21 00:17:18

WHEN STRANGERS MARRY (William Castle, 1944) ***

William Castle's first noteworthy effort (incidentally, the copy Iacquired bore a new title - BETRAYED!) was made at Poverty Row studioMonogram within a genre he would intermittently return to until thegenial director saw he could particularly make a mint with Horror. Itis a noir with a distinct Hitchcock feel: in fact, the plot bearsobvious nods to both SUSPICION (1941) and SHADOW OF A DOUBT (1943), amurder attempt is borrowed wholesale from FOREIGN CORRSPONDENT (1940),and there is even Castle's own 'appearance' (which is actually treatedas a recurring in-joke here!).It was an equally important film for Robert Mitchum, not only becauseit showed that his star was definitely rising but in view of the factthat the ultimate revelation as to his character's true nature would bereworked in some of his later (and most impressive) work. Curiouslyenough, I was under the impression that he would be the suspectedmurderer husband – but the way things played out, I must congratulatethe scriptwriters (including Philip Yordan) on their ingenuity. Leadinglady Kim Hunter (ideally cast as the fresh-faced bride) had just comeoff the Val Lewton production THE SEVENTH VICTIM (1943), while DeanJagger has an atypical lead role (it is even more unusual to see himsporting a full head of hair!) – their awkwardness is never moreeffectively delineated than when they find themselves stranded inside aHarlem nightclub (showcasing an over-enthusiastic black dancer). Alsoon hand is Neil Hamilton (later Commissioner Gordon in the campy butpopular BATMAN TV series of the 1960s) already in his element as aPolice Inspector; incidentally, his ambivalent relationship withMitchum throughout pays off in droves during the frenzied climax.Despite the evident economy of means, the film still displaysconsiderable style along the way (atmospheric chiaroscuro lighting,effective low-angle shooting, an imaginative hallucination sequence,etc.); the role-reversal in the opening and closing scenes is a nicetouch, too. For the record, I own several more of Castle's (by allaccounts, lesser) noirs but I probably will not have time to fit any ofthem in my current schedule...

emdragon 2012-05-20 17:12:04

contrived melo-drama

I have to say, I've seen some lame movies in my time, but this onetakes the complete cake. Every device that the film makers came up withis contrived from some completely implausible source. A woman marries aman that she barely knows. A murder is committed at a salesman's hotelin Philadelphia. Every indication is that the murderer is the woman'snewly married husband. Except that after making him look completelyguilty for most of the picture, we find out he did'nt do it. Themelodramatic music does'nt help this picture any either. Up until thereal murderer's identity is revealed the audience does'nt even get tosuspect that they are watching a whodunit. And for some reason when theyoung couple is on the lam in New York, random people continuallysuspect that it is precisely THEM who are guilty of something thathappened in Philadelphia, even though a vague remote description givenover the radio is all anyone would have to go on IF they had beenlooking out for the culprit in the first place. It makes virtually nosense, is totally implausible, and defies description for plotstupidity.

2012-05-19 14:51:33

Tiny forgotten gem on DVD-R

This review is from: Betrayed (1954) (DVD) I actually don't understand Studio policies.For many years they were sitting on magnificent movies, such as this one, and never decided to release them on DVD.Suddenly they seem to have discovered that they always had them, sitting in their vaults and voila, here they are,popping up like popcorn, but at a price.I must say that they also capitalize on such titles, because they are far from being cheap.At prices ranging from 16 to 26 dollars for a simple transfer to DVD-R (the kind we all know and use daily in ourDVD readers on our laptops or PCs), with no extras to speak about (generally just the trailer), sometimesnot even provided with a decent menu or chapter option, and lacking optional subtitles or languages, theycould easily be taken as true rip-offs.Yet, one must admit that although the movies presented here are WISIWIG (What You See is What You Get), all the copiesI have watched from both the Warner Bros. and Universal vaults, are still (for their age), in excellent condition.The sound is usually as is, as it came when the movie was originally released. Therefore, one might expect a bit ofdisappointment, but in reality the sound is usually quite crisp and good, so no problem there.But as said, the price is that of a special edition, and these are a far cry from such an edition.I therefore classify these among "strictly collector's or connaisseur editions", which would explain and justifysuch fantastic pricing.Yet, like in this case, I can only recommend these, since otherwise, they would be subjected to rest in the Studiovaults for another twenty, if not fifty years until forgetfulness and carelessness take their toll on some gemslike "Bhowani Junction", "Not with My Wife, You Don't" or "Tell Them Willie Boy is Here".Get them while you can, if you have a few bucks reserved for this.I suspect that after this wave is gone, they will again disappear for a while...

2012-05-18 20:26:13

Extremely bad transfer and horrible disc quality!

This review is from: Betrayed (1954) (DVD) This CD release of "Betrayed" suffers from image quality notunlike the worst videotape you ever owned. It was hard to getinto watching this film because of how poor it looked on-screen!From now on, I'll think twice about ordering any of these WBarchive titles. It would appear that no attention was paid tocleaning up these films before offering them to the public.

FilmFlaneur 2012-05-15 17:59:28

Talents in bud

Castle's third feature is an interesting case of talents in thebud.Previously he had been responsible for a bright Boston Blackie series entrywith Chester Morris, and the less successful Klondike Kate (1943) with TomNeal. When Strangers Marry (also known by the less accurate title ofBetrayed) shows the director's increasing confidence as he ventures into theterritory of the new film noir genre. He was also lucky in securing theservices of a good cast: Kim Hunter, Dean Jagger and, in his firstco-starring role, a young Robert Mitchum. One of the greatest noir stars,Mitchum is slimmer and perhaps more tentative here than he would be in laterfilms, but still has enough presence and skill to make an impact, especiallyin the sweaty closing scenes. Already an experienced hand, Dimitri Tiomkinprovided the music, and the result was an above average production fromMonogram.Having said that, there's a certain peremptoriness to the film, making itnot entirely satisfactory. The noir style, which thrived on inexpensive setsand the economic use of shadow, cheap location shooting and the like, isevoked by Castle rather than expressed in any thoroughfashion.Castle's next film The Whistler (1944), on yet another minisculebudget,was much more effective in evoking a continuous mood of paranoia anddoomfrom the haunted Richard Dix. Some successful scenes apart, (Millie'sfirstnight in the hotel, her Lewtonish night walk, her innocent suspicionsinPaul's apartment), the present film rather clumsily bolts noir elements onto a standardsuspense plot - one vaguely reminiscent of Hitchcock's Suspicion ofthreeyears before - rather than to let them arise naturally from situationandcharacter. An example is Millie's night of disturbed rest in thehotel.Husbandless in her neon sign-lit room, drowned in shadows and fear, sheisdistracted by the repeated blaring of nearby dancehall before takingafraught phone call from Fred (Mitchum). This scene has no real plotpurposeexcept to show her loneliness and distress, and the expressionistimagesseem over emphatic. On its own it is startling and dramatic, but nothingmore, a pool of hard noir in a more naturalistic film.Even less convincingly, as if it had never happened Millie then makes nomove to change her room laterthe next day, and the music never occurs again (it would have madeanexcellent punctuation for any later confrontation with Fred, forinstance).As an actress, Kim Hunter makes an effective noir victim, even ifhertrusting fragility needs a willing suspension of disbelief. PowellandPressburger obviously recognised such sensitivity even in a povertyrowproduct like this, for they shortly cast her in such films as ACanterburyTale, of the same year, and then in A Matter of Life and Death(1946).A more serious plot flaw resides in the character of her husbandPaul(Jagger). His personality and motives are shrouded in mysterythroughoutthe film and, sadly, are not much clearer by the end. For a whilethisenigmatic man provides the narrative with a lot of useful suspense. The lackofresolution to his drama, while supplying the necessary twist as thetruthis revealed, leaves the viewer with just too many questions tobecomfortable. One misses even the rudimentary psycho-analysis whichappearedin some noirs from this time, supposedly explaining the aberrantpersonality. Eitherelements of helpful exposition were jettisoned in the course of filmingona tight budget, or the writers (who included the excellent PhilipJordan,of Dillinger, Detective Story, Big Combo fame) thought they could getawaywith such a lacuna. The result is to reduce a happy ending to one whereamarried couple must still live on unresolved tensions, theirdeterminedcontentment notwithstanding.For those interested in trivia there are some private jokes in the film.A'Mr King' is paged at the hotel (the film was produced by theKingbrothers). More amusingly, Millie hands over a deliberatelymisleadingpicture to the investigating detectives, saying 'This is the man youwant'.It is director Castle. Such gallows humour, and self-publicity,wouldmanifest itself in a series of gimmick films for which he is betterknown,starting in the 50's...

dougdoepke 2012-05-15 06:19:07

Many Imaginative Touches

Check out that unsettling scene in the lonely police waiting room.Little guy Houser (Lubin) sits on one side and vulnerable newly-wedMillie (Hunter) sits on the other with a big empty space between. It'sa great visual metaphor for the danger facing our young stranger in thecity. A hostile world appears on one side and poor Millie all alone onthe other. Even little things work against her in the big, impersonalsurroundings—the unhelpful news guy, streetlights suddenly going out.Then too, those spare sets from budget-minded Monogram fairly echo withundefined menace.From such atmospheric touches, it's not hard to detect the influence ofVal Lewton's horror classic The Seventh Victim (1943). At the sametime, the movie's director William Castle was a moving force behind thebrilliantly unconventional Whistler series from Columbia studios. Sothe many imaginative touches here, like the lunging lion's head thatopens the film, should come as no surprise.Despite the overall suspense, I had trouble following plotconvolutions—who was where, when, and why. But then the screenplay didhave four writers, which is seldom an asset. Still, the mysterioushusband (Jagger) and Millie's suspicions does generate core interest.In my little book, the main appeal is in the players and theatmosphere, such as the winsome young Hunter, a virile young Mitchum,and the jazzy Harlem nightclub. All in all, the sixty-minutes remains aclever little surprise from poverty row Monogram.

2012-05-11 21:51:21

Excellent movie

This review is from: Betrayed (1954) (DVD) This film is one of my all time favorites and I was not disappointed in the copy I received.

Igenlode Wordsmith 2012-05-11 11:20:50

Much more than I bargained for

I wouldn't have believed that this film could run barely over an hourin length; in the course of its 67 minutes, it crams in more plottwists, emotional punch and sheer tension than recent blockbusters canmanage in 200 or more, with never a wasted moment... but no lack,either, of aching silences and endless hours at night. As the innocent,idealistic young wife adrift in a city and world utterly alien to her,Kim Hunter carries the whole film with a performance of breathtakingconviction. She is scarcely off-screen from start to finish, as thecharacter grows and matures both in confidence and desperation, and ourassumptions about the outcome shift off-balance from one moment to thenext. 'When Strangers Marry' is without a doubt her film. It's also anemotional roller-coaster, a gripping piece of noir -- and,unbelievably, a no-budget miracle shot in just seven days.Robert Mitchum, in an early role, is a little wooden but cruciallyeffective in the part of the former suitor who provides a steadyshoulder for his one-time fiancée to lean on, and Dean Jagger issuitably elusive as the longed-for husband who is all but a stranger,but it is Hunter who really stands out here. I wasn't expecting muchfrom this film but was absolutely swept away by it: an example aboveall of how to do a Hitchcock on Poverty Row.

madmonkmcghee 2012-05-10 20:38:35

Film Grey

Bargain basement noir with some nice touches, but ultimatelydisappointing. Director Castle simply tries to be too clever and toofaux artistique for such a modest melodrama. It's obvious he'd seenmovies like Stranger on the Third Floor ( a moody masterpiece) andthought he'd figured out the recipe. He guessed wrong: the plot isriddled with holes, the lighting and camera-work, essential to makenoir movies really work, are shoddy and bleak. The sets look likecardboard cutouts that could collapse at any moment, and some actorsfumble their lines or deliver them as if they're John Barrymore. On theplus side Mitchum is his good solid self, but he just doesn't get thechance to be as charming or menacing as he should be. Kim Hunter isengaging, but she only gets to play a lovesick newlywed for the entiremovie, even when the story clearly demands a change of mood. Even whenshe suspects her hubby of being a serial killer, she keeps staringlongingly into his eyes and even helps him escape from the police. Thethings we do for Love! The surprise twist at the end is just toopredictable to forgiveall these faults, and the ending.....surely whenthey're on the rooftop together the killer will.....? Nah, just let thecops nab him posting a letter. That Castle just didn't get it; nowonder he turned to effect-heavy horror flicks. Noir addicts may wantto give this one a look, but probably not more than once.

2012-05-10 08:58:58

Excellent quality release from WB

Please do not listen to Phil Stout. I almost didn't order this dvd because of his review. I would recommend ordering directly from warner over ordering it here though. The quality of this dvd is not worse than any videtape. You can completly ignore Phil on this movie. The quality is as good as any 50's color movie released on dvd. This is not a CD as Phil states but a DVD-R (burned not pressed dvd). If you have seen other Gable color movies from the 50's the quality is as good or better than Magambo, Soldier of Fortune and the Tall Men. I do have public domain movies on dvd that are as worse as any movie ever released on VHS but this is not one of them.

The_Void 2012-05-10 12:44:59

Good thriller from William Castle

William Castle would of course go on to become best known for hisgimmicky horror films; an oeuvre which includes the likes of House onHaunted Hill, The Tingler and Homicidal - but before then, he made aseries of film noir/mystery thrillers; and When Strangers Marry is oneof those. The film is only just over an hour long and I wouldn't besurprised to find that it was made as a 'B' feature for some biggermovie. However, in spite of that; the production values aren't bad andthe cast all do well also. The plot is rather unlikely and focuses onthe idea of a man and a woman getting married without really knowingeach other. Millie Baxter is the female half of the equation; and shehas been called, by her husband, to New York in order to meet with him.However, upon her arrival; he's not at the hotel, but by chance she isgreeted by her old friend Fred Graham, who clearly carries a torch forher. Fred agrees to help her look for her husband and the pair begintracking him across New York...but it soon becomes clear that there'ssomething sinister surrounding his disappearance.This was an early film appearance for Robert Mitchum, and it's clearthat the producers knew he was going to be a star, although his rolehere is a secondary one. He leads the film from the back and WilliamCastle never misses a chance to give the actor a close-up. It's not theactor's best performance by a long shot, but it shows some earlypromise. Kim Hunter is the female lead and her role gives her a chanceto retread some of the same ground of her debut feature, Val Lewton'smasterpiece The Seventh Victim. As you would expect considering thelength of the film, the story is very tight and there is little in theway of diversions from the main plot line. The main plot itself is justabout good enough to hold interest for the duration of the film,although I can imagine it would become more than a little tedious ifthe film were longer. The ending features a twist in the story; and formy money it's a rather convenient one that doesn't really make sense.There are some attempts to explain it and the holes it creates could bepatched up...but it requires the viewer to suspend some disbelief.Still, there's worse ways to spend an hour and this is a decent film.

2012-05-09 20:34:13

a nifty spy yarn

A great cast and snappy dialogue make this WWII spy thriller very entertaining. Set in Holland and England during 1943, there is intrigue, agents with dubious pasts, and a bombshell babe. Lana Turner is stunning with dark hair, as "Carla" a.k.a. "Fran". She is sensational as she sings a sultry song, and gets to prove that she was a highly underrated actress. I love the way she utters "Oh please !" when Gable tells her to get married and have children.Clark Gable is strong, tough and manly as a Colonel in Dutch Intelligence; Gable was in his early fifties when this was filmed, and he looks very weathered but still handsome.Other marvelous performances come from Victor Mature as "The Scarf", an underground leader, Wilfrid Hyde-White as a General of the British Intelligence, and Louis Calhern as both Dutch General Ten Eyck, and the narrator of the film.O.E. Hasse is the intriguing Colonel Dietrich of the German Intelligence, who says "A spy has no character, he only assumes one"Marvelous cinematography by Freddie Young and score by Walter Goehr, and fast-paced direction by Gottfried Reinhardt also contribute to make this a jolly good show. Total running time is 107 minutes

mark.waltz 2012-05-07 21:21:03

Neat little "B" thriller with a great twist.

Monogram produced a lot of stinkers, but they also had their share ofclassics. "When Strangers Marry" (under its re-release title "Betrayed"for the DVD), is one of the best. Ingenue Kim Hunter, years beforeBrando emotionally screamed "Stella!" to get her attention, plays aninnocent young girl from Ohio who has been married for only a month toa man she hardly knew. In fact, he immediately went on the road onbusiness, and has just sent for her to meet him in New York when shearrives and runs into an old flame (Robert Mitchum). The husbandremains mysteriously out of site for a while, so she gets reacquaintedwith Mitchum before finally encountering her husband (Dean Jagger). Itbecomes apparent the moment he shows up that he is in trouble and maybe the killer of a drunk man he admits to having rolled inPhiladelphia.The fast-moving film noir like mystery presents its facts, adds on acouple more clues, and delivers the truth with a neat little twist thatremains surprising even if it was a bit predictable. Neil Hamilton, anearly 30's leading man (and later the police commissioner on "Batman")is fine as the investigator whom Mitchum and Hunter go to see to findJagger. Hunter shows great promise and within a few years, would goonto film immortality in "A Streetcar Named Desire" and gain cultstatus by donning heavy make-up as Zira in "Planet of the Apes".Mitchum and Jagger are fine as well. This was one of Mitchum's firstmajor roles after tons of walk-ons, and within a year of this, would beone of Hollywood's most popular "tough men", a new breed of leadingactors like Kirk Douglas and Burt Lancaster that would change the wayHollywood made movies. This is a definite must see for fans of '40's"B" features.

Alex da Silva 2012-05-07 09:04:23

Mail-chute tension

Millie (Kim Hunter) travels to New York to meet with her husband Paul(Dean Jagger). However, he does not show up for a while and when heeventually does, he seems to mysteriously keep disappearing again.Millie's ex-lover, Fred (Robert Mitchum) is also in town and he keeps alook-out over Millie as she tries to discover who the man is that shehas married. She had only met Paul 3 times before they tied the knot.Fools! Playing alongside this mystery is the police investigation ofthe "silk stocking murder" in which a very annoying Sam Prescott (DickElliott) had been rightfully murdered in his hotel room. Can the policeget their man and can Millie find happiness? The film moves at a swift pace and contains some nice shots and goodatmosphere, eg, the Harlem club that Paul and Millie slip into while onthe run together. There are a few liberties that are taken with theplot, eg, the cab driver who suspects Paul of being the "silk stockingmurderer". Why would he think that when there is such a vaguedescription of the killer that is released to the public (he's a tallman)? We watch to discover the identity of the killer and we are sold acouple of red herrings along the way.The acting is alright, nothing great but Mitchum's acting loses itcompletely in the scene by the mail-chute. Watch out for an appearanceby Rhonda Fleming at the film's ending where the cycle seems to bestarting all over again.