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13 February 1947 (USA)
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It was just a "flirtation" until it became an "affair"!
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Anne Parkson (Frances Gifford) feels neglected by her lawyer-husband Ted (George Murphy), so she falls...
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More romantic weeper than noir, Arnelo Affair bulges with lost opportunities
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(Complete credited cast) | John Hodiak | ... | Tony Arnelo |
| George Murphy | ... | Theodore 'Ted' Parkson |
| Frances Gifford | ... | Anne Parkson |
| Dean Stockwell | ... | Ricky Parkson |
| Eve Arden | ... | Vivian Delwyn |
| Warner Anderson | ... | Det. Sam Leonard |
| Lowell Gilmore | ... | Dr. Avery Border |
| Archie Twitchell | ... | Roger Alison (as Michael Branden) |
| Ruth Brady | ... | Dorothy Alison |
| Ruby Dandridge | ... | Maybelle, Parkson's Maid |
| Joan Woodbury | ... | Claire Lorrison |
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| Frank Wilcox | ... | McKingby (scenes deleted) |
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86 min
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1.37 : 1 more
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Mono (Western Electric Sound System)
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Finland:K-16 |
USA:Approved (PCA #11993, General Audience)
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In The Arnelo Affair, the letter `A' keeps cropping up again and again - as a monogram on a dressing gown, a compact, a key. Ostensibly it signifies one of the two main characters: Tony Arnelo (John Hodiak ), a predatory nightclub owner, or Ann Parkson (Frances Gifford), wife of Arnelo's square-rigger of an attorney (George Murphy). But really the `A' serves to remind us that the story is chiefly about the Scarlet Letter of Adultery - the Affair of the title.
The movie's sinister, noirish elements are not quite an afterthought, but almost. During the first half of the movie, ignored and restive, Gifford sulks nobly in the household she shares with Murphy, forever working late on his legal briefs, and her nine-year-old son (Dean Stockwell) who thinks he could benefit from psychoanalysis. (She, however, may be a riper candidate for the couch, given as she is to swoons and passive-aggressive feigned headaches.)
When smooth-talking Hodiak flatters her and hires her as decorator, she obliges and soon finds herself with the key to his apartment and an inclination to use it for naughtier purposes than updating the chintz. But she soon finds out that Hodiak has many another slip in which to dock his dinghy; and when one of his stable of lady friends is found murdered, Gifford's initialed compact is found with the body. With the prompting of police detective Warner Anderson, Murphy is jolted out of his complacency and sets out to find the truth....
Like The Unfaithful of the same year (a sweetened-up remake of The Letter), The Arnelo Affair seems geared to the women in its audience, more a weeper than a noir. Even the redoubtable Eve Arden, as a dress-designing upstairs neighbor, gets paraded out as much for her eye-popping post-war get-ups as for her trademark mordant lines (and she's a welcome foil to all Gifford's suffering saintliness). The Arnelo Affair holds interest, if slackly; its director, Arch Oboler, hadn't much of a feel for the possibilities inherent in the script or the knack for bringing them out. It's telling that the most memorable characters in the movie are not the principals but Anderson, Arden and the nine-year-old Stockwell.