This movie was a mess. It's a want to be Hitchcock movie about an affair and a murder. It's trashy and doesn't say anything new. Frankly, Claude Chabrol made much better movies (and so did Jean-Paul Belmondo). You're better off with Chabrol's Les Bonnes Femmes and Le Boucher.
I like Madge Evans and I've been going through her filmography. My twin sister calls her the drier Norma Shearer. She plays a woman who spends too much of her husband's money. He resorted to embezzling to provide for her. While in jail she has an affair that has unexpected consequences. Madge Evans is awesome in this. She's not playing her typical girl next neighbor role. It shows the range this actress had.
The fact that Grace Kelly was a princess and she played a princess is awesome. That's my main motivation for watching this movie. However, it was really boring. Grace Kelly is planned to marry Alec Guinness. Things don't go as planned though when she falls in love with a regular guy Louis Jourdan. At least Grace Kelly is pretty here.
In this Spanish movie, a little girl becomes fixated with the movie Frankenstein. I think that the main strengths of the movie are her interactions with her friend. It shows her being a regular kid. The obsessions with Frankenstein may be the main plot of this movie but it has far more to it than that. It's a layered movie.
Alain Delon kills his friend, then takes on his identity and his girlfriend Marie Laforet. I decided to watch this again after five years since I own a collection of Marie Laforet. But the movie belongs to Alain Delon, I think of the most handsome men in the cinema. He plays an excellent Tom Ripley. I prefer this to the remake The Talented Mr. Ripley with Matt Damon. The French got it right.
In this movie, Robert Young creates a business for getting people's dirty work done for them. It sounds like a good idea until he gets involved with a kidnapped baby. The lovely Madge Evans co-stars. This was just all right. I give a 2.5 out of 5 stars.
This early Ingmar Bergman movie covers topics like abortion and prostitution. It's about a suicidal girl and a boy that can't look back at her past. Apparently, Ingmar Bergman didn't think he was any good at this time but I'm glad he stuck with it.
