Sunday 20 September 2015

Deception (1946 Irving Rapper)

Scored by Erich Wolfgang Korngold (his cello concerto is dark and powerful) and shot by Ernie Haller, Bette Davis is caught between sugar daddy Claude Rains (in one of his best performances) and old lover Paul Henreid, who looks like he's actually playing the cello very convincingly. Some great cutting in orchestra scenes also (Alan Crosland Jr). Plot is very simple. Not one of the very best Warner Brothers films but interesting.

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