Exoticalot People are voting emotionally.

KnotStronger This is a must-see and one of the best documentaries - and films - of this year.

Catangro After playing with our expectations, this turns out to be a very different sort of film.

Mandeep Tyson The acting in this movie is really good.

Edgar Allan Pooh " . . . as though we never left the island." No, this is NOT a quote from the final episode of the TV series LOST, but rather the last line of an eerily prophetic 1946 Warner Bros. feature, A STOLEN LIFE. Why would Warner demean its contemporary audiences for STOLEN LIFE by telling them to disregard everything that they'd just paid to see? Because whether they were churning out a Looney Tune or CASABLANCA, Warner's always clairvoyant prognosticators were ever keen to keep their focus upon Job #1: to warn Americans of their Upcoming Calamities, Catastrophes, Cataclysms, and Apocalypti. Warner uses A STOLEN LIFE to show U.S. Citizens that the Deplorable Fat Cat One Per Center Job-Killing Capitalist Class, as embodied by Kate and Pat Bosworth here, are NOT Real People but actually interchangeable plastic clones (like Kate and Pat), all created in Satan's Spitting Image. When a Loyal Patriotic True Blue Normal Average Progressive Union Label American such as STOLEN's Bill Emerson gets tangled up with such Oligarchical Demonesses, it makes no difference whether they're "Matey Katies" or "Hellcat Pats": any superficial differences are merely the frosting on a Devil's Food Cake!

Steve Rolfe I have lost count of how many times I've watched this wonderful film. Each time I get something from it and i believe it is Bette Davis best work - which is a big statement ! Viewers will be hypnotised by Bette's amazing performance and the filmography is truly amazing. To watch this film through modern eyes, you often find yourself trying to work out how the director and editor managed to get away with the 'two bette' film sequences. This is no evidence of 'lines' in the film, or murky backgrounds and if you didn't know it was the same women, you would really think they were twins. The story line is terrific, Glenn Ford (very young) fits the role perfectly and Dane Clark's performance is very direct and well played. There really is something for everyone in this film and a must watch.

LeonLouisRicci This is without doubt a showcase for the Star but it failed to include the necessary nastiness of the Bad Twin. Almost all of her devious behavior takes place off screen and that renders this tepid and lacking any real tension.It is all handled with such lightweight soapiness it becomes soppy and what is left is a well mounted production. The split screen is flawless but that cannot be said of much else going on here. Actually there is very little difference between the Sisters displayed and it is pretty much left to the subconscious and the imagination.This is barely Worth a Watch and the only real energy is left to a supporting Character of a starving Artist. That burst of momentum if given to the supposedly dark Twin could have separated this from a standard and stodgy melodrama. The ending is completely contrived and forced on the audience with very little believability or explanation.

nycritic Whether or not she actually produced is questionable and more of a footnote in her career before the cameras, and after all, that is what really drew in the public. A STOLEN LIFE, a remake of an earlier movie starring Elisabeth Bergner (herself the subject a story that would bring life to Mary Orr's now classic story "The Wisdom of Eve", which would be made into what is known today as ALL ABOUT EVE) is a not-very plausible melodrama about twin sisters Pat and Kate Bosworth who engage in some interesting identity-swapping once one of them drowns in an unfortunate boat accident. Davis co-stars with herself and looks like two different people. Trick editing and a matting effect that would later be used to great effect in David Croneberg's male answer to this film -- his classic (and perverse) DEAD RINGERS -- is the real star of this movie; because of it, the interactions with the two sisters is a sight to watch instead of being hokey to a point where you would be able to see the split in the middle of the screen. It would probably have benefited more if at the time, dramas would be given the green light to explore the possibilities of twins as Kristoff Kieszliwski did in THE DOUBLE LIVE OF VERONIQUE instead of having the surviving sister be drawn into a more conventional plot of deception. But this wasn't the case and the result is a movie that has an implied lot to say about women who are loose in morals and the fate that befalls them. Equally implicit is the notion that the surviving sister cannot find happiness until she has to become the "bad" one and fool the bland man who was taken away from her by her "bad" sister. It's been the stuff of Spanish soap operas left and right, particularly Mexican soaps which have told this story over and over again with little variations on the title "The Usurper" ("La Usurpadora") and even "Vida Robada", virtually a literal translation of "Stolen Life". But then again, no one could do soaps better than Bette, and in this one, she's her only competition.