Films/DVD Asylum

Posted by jbmcb (A) on May 12, 2005 at 16:25:39

Saw it on TCM yesterday. 1946 w/ Orson Welles

Started out pretty formuliac, my wife got annoyed by me predicting the plot points for the first fifteen minutes, MST3K style.

Second act is where it got interesting. The younger actors were a bit green, execept for Natalie Wood, who usually had a halfway decent German accent, and actually spoke pretty good German for such a young age. Ancillary actors were acceptable, but Welles really stood out. The movie would have sucked bad if they had used someone else, Welles seemed to make it interesting through sheer willpower. It looks like he may have helped along the director in parts as well (some of the lighting and cinematography look to be lifted from Welle's bag of tricks.)

A bit slow in parts, heavy handed philophisizing now and then, but overall an entertaining and interesting postwar "chick flick."

Score: 75/100

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