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It's a mystery why warm, wealthy, beautiful Joan Bennett marries diffident, tense, aloof Michael Redgrave (who seems awfully miscast), but love is mysterious. Stanley Cortez's moody lighting and noirish photography certainly help us through the long talky passages, and the pseudo-Freudian faffing about, as Joan tries to unravel the murky secrets of the house she's married into. It's 'Rebecca' meets 'Spellbound' without the tension. Fritz Lang's heavy handedness doesn't help, but, at least he cast Joan, who is, as always, a real flesh and blood person, whereas Redgrave seems like he's wandered in from a stage play and isn't quite sure what he's doing there.
score 3/10
BOUF 21 July 2008
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