Max Ophüls’ trademark sense of doom is all over this lush noir melodrama, in which idealistic shopgirl Leonora (Barbara Bel Geddes) is torn between her psychotic multi-millionaire husband and James Mason’s virtuous doctor. Full of Ophüls’ fluid, imaginative camerawork, it boasts nuanced performances from Mason and Robert Ryan as the splenetic spouse (modelled on Howard Hughes). As the detailed, academic chat-track points out, the film was plagued with problems. This explains its uneven denouement, but not Barbara Bel Geddes’ inability to muster more than two expressions…
Film Details
- U
- DVD RELEASE: Sep 8th 2008
Try This...
Latest Reviews Updated: May 23rd 2012
-
Cinema
-
Blu-ray
-
DVD
-
UK Box Office
Most Popular
-
News
- 1Django Unchained Footage Revealed: Cannes Reaction
- 2First trailer for Skyfall: watch now
- 3Tom Hardy talks working with Gary Oldman on The Dark Knight Rises
- 4Robert Pattinson to join Catching Fire?
- 5New secret Catwoman poster revealed for The Dark Knight Rises
- 6Seth MacFarlane's Ted gets a rude new poster
- 7Six new character posters for The Dark Knight Rises
- 8Iron Man 3 adds a new villain, and Jon Favreau returns
- 9Four epic new banners for The Dark Knight Rises
- 102 new TV spots for The Dark Knight Rises: watch now
-
Reviews
-
Features
- 150 Best Movies Of 2011
- 250 Worst Movies Of 2011
- 310 Questions Raised By The Skyfall Teaser Trailer
- 4The 20 Greatest Movie Porn Parodies
- 515 Craziest Cronenberg Moments
- 615 Greatest Cannes 2012 Movies
- 750 Greatest Cannes Breakthroughs
- 8Worst To Best: Movie Threequels
- 915 Greatest Cannes Movie Posters
- 10The Making Of On The Road
-
Video
