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Title: The Shrike (1955)
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| Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
| José Ferrer | ... | Jim Downs | |
| June Allyson | ... | Ann Downs | |
| Joy Page | ... | Charlotte Moore | |
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Kendall Clark | ... | Dr. R.S. Bellman |
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Isabel Bonner | ... | Dr. Barrow |
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Jay Barney | ... | Dr. Kramer |
| Richard Benedict | ... | Gregory, Male Nurse | |
| Herbie Faye | ... | Tager | |
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Martin Benedict | ... | Jimmy |
| Will Kuluva | ... | John Ankortis | |
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Martin Newman | ... | Carlos O'Brien |
| Billy M. Greene | ... | Schloss (as Billy Greene) | |
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Somar Alberg | ... | Dr. Schlesinger |
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Joe Comadore | ... | Major |
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Leigh Whipper | ... | Carlisle |
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A successful theatrical director is driven to failure by the machinations of his vengeful wife. Eventually, he lands in a mental hospital where both his wife and his new love, a young actress named Charlotte, are waiting to see him. Written by Daniel Bubbeo <dbubbeo@cmp.com>
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I saw the movie about 50 years ago. A friend of mine, who had seen the play on Broadway, told me that his mother and her bridge club had journeyed from New Jersey to NYC to see it in a matinée performance, and she told him, as I remember, "We girls found it one-sided." My friend was a full fledged alcoholic by the age of twenty. He found the movie too true to be good, if I may put it so.
I loved June Alyson ever since I had seen her in Singing in the Rain and the movie, the Shrike, has always stayed with me, in part because I found it puzzling the one time I saw it. I would really like to see it again; only the passage of time leads me to give it a "9" rather than a "10".
Many strong images from the film remain in my memory: the squalid 12 x 6 hotel room lit by a bare bulb hanging like fly paper from the ceiling in which the attempted suicide took place; the impassive face of the psychiatrist listening to the wife's (shrike's) analysis of her husband; her shock when the shrink asks her whether she has sought therapeutic help for herself; and some other moments, too.
It may be one of the great movies. It seems to have been lost to memory. How can I get to see it again?