Aldrich would of course work with Joan Crawford again in Whatever Happened to Baby Jane? This is a more soapy affair as she (then about 49) resists the advances of younger Cliff Robertson (who we probably know best for Three Days of the Condor) until they marry... then the ex wife turns up. But all is not what it seems and Robertson turns out to have considerable mental problems (the source for which aren't mentioned, though he's clearly suffered an emotional shock seeing his father and wife together). Which makes it somewhat more interesting than it might have been.
Written by Jean Rouverol and husband Hugo Butler - uncredited as blacklisted, while on the run from HUAC in Mexico - and Lewis Meltzer and Robert Blees.
With Vera Miles (wouldn't have recognised her), Lorne Greene, Ruth Donnelly. Photographed by Charles Lang. Columbia.
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