There are Golden Turkeys and Platinum Turkeys and then there is Laughing Anne. I doubt if four leads have ever been more mis-matched in a movie. Wendell 'Mahogany' Corey gets top-billing over Margaret Lockwood whose best days were behind her whilst even more bizarrely Forest Tucker and Ronald Shiner share third and fourth spot. The film has one minor distinction inasmuch as it is the only film based on his work in which Joseph Conrad appears as a character narrating his own story over drinks - the device, albeit much less crudely, had worked well some half a dozen years previously when Herbert Marshall portrayed Somerset Maugham in The Razor's Edge and actually interacted with his own fictional creations throughout as well as providing linking narration. The plot, acting, in fact just about everything in the movie will best be served by the application of a discreet veil. For connoisseurs of seriously bad movies only.
Review of Laughing Anne
