I've never seen a movie where I didn't enjoy the performance of George Sanders...until now. In the first quarter of the film Sanders acting...and the script...are deplorable. Things get better for Sanders and the script through quite a bit of the rest of the film, but every once in a while the actor and script begin sinking again into melodrama (and I mean that in the worst sense).
The rest of the cast is at least interesting...if not particularly good. Yvonne DeCarlo was beautiful and sometimes had some excellent roles; she did not put in a good performance here...better as the film progressed...but her early scenes as a lowlife were awfully exaggerated and stereotypical. Surprisingly, Zsa Zsa Gabor's acting here was quite gokod, and it's interesting that she and Sanders had just divorced a couple of years earlier. Victor Jory certainly showed his limitations here. John Hoyt put in a good performance here, and it reminded of what a good character actor he was. Nancy Gates...undecided; perhaps. Interestingly, Tom Conway, who here plays Sanders' brother...really was his brother. Colonel Klink (Werner Klemperer) has a part here, too.
As mentioned earlier, every once in a while, and particularly early on, the movie descends into cheap melodrama with too many plot twists that seemed clever (but weren't). Under a better director this could have been a great film, but under Charles Martin...who??? Production values here were quite limited, and it shows.
Sorry, but this is somewhat of a klunker. Maybe fun to watch to see just how bad it is.
The rest of the cast is at least interesting...if not particularly good. Yvonne DeCarlo was beautiful and sometimes had some excellent roles; she did not put in a good performance here...better as the film progressed...but her early scenes as a lowlife were awfully exaggerated and stereotypical. Surprisingly, Zsa Zsa Gabor's acting here was quite gokod, and it's interesting that she and Sanders had just divorced a couple of years earlier. Victor Jory certainly showed his limitations here. John Hoyt put in a good performance here, and it reminded of what a good character actor he was. Nancy Gates...undecided; perhaps. Interestingly, Tom Conway, who here plays Sanders' brother...really was his brother. Colonel Klink (Werner Klemperer) has a part here, too.
As mentioned earlier, every once in a while, and particularly early on, the movie descends into cheap melodrama with too many plot twists that seemed clever (but weren't). Under a better director this could have been a great film, but under Charles Martin...who??? Production values here were quite limited, and it shows.
Sorry, but this is somewhat of a klunker. Maybe fun to watch to see just how bad it is.