Sleep, My Love (1947 Douglas Sirk)

Enigmatic beginning - Colbert wakes up on a train, remembering only she went to sleep in her bed the night before... and has her husband's gun. It turns our Don Ameche has been drugging and then sleep hypnotising her - you know, sleep hypnotising. He quite amusingly drugs himself at one point. It's all a plot to replace Mrs Ameche with Hazel Brooks, who slinks around in negligees, aided by a rather creepy photographer played with gusto by George Coulouris. Keye Luke adds colour as Robert Cummings 'brother' and Raymond Burr is the thick detective. A large gothic mansion and the photographer's studios also add an element of interest - designed by William Ferrari. Joseph Valentine is on camera.

Queenie Smith and Hazel Brooks

A Mary Pickford independent production.