Surgeon Robert Mitchum falls for suicidal Faith Domergue. When he thinks he's accidentally killed her husband Claude Rains, and suffers concussion, the inexorable nightmare has begun... My 'RKO Story' sadly doesn't list how the audience reacted to it, but spares time to detail how bad Domergue's (debut) performance is. Poor old Bob - as weary and bashed in as I think I've seen him. (Another way to put this is it's a fine performance.)
Charles Bennett's screenplay has a rich gallery of laughing yet dodgy car salesmen, pawnbrokers, theatre owners, and most amusingly an Arizona town of bearded men who force the couple to get married... She's crazy, by the way... Bennett contributed to Blackmail, The Man Who Knew Too Much, The 39 Steps, The Secret Agent, Sabotage, Young and Innocent and Foreign Correspondent.
All caught in the glare of Nick Musuraca's camera, underscored by Roy Webb. Nice Cadillac they had, too...
Ellipses City...
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| Ed. Yes - you're just being silly now. |
Didn't recognise Maureen O'Sullivan. Admittedly she did have a mask on some of the time. She was married to the director, John Farrow, and had several children, including one Mia... J. Farrow made The Big Clock.
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