Hellen I like the storyline of this show,it attract me so much

Stometer Save your money for something good and enjoyable

FuzzyTagz If the ambition is to provide two hours of instantly forgettable, popcorn-munching escapism, it succeeds.

Sarita Rafferty There are moments that feel comical, some horrific, and some downright inspiring but the tonal shifts hardly matter as the end results come to a film that's perfect for this time.

JohnHowardReid Copyright 8 March 1948 by Diana Productions, Inc. Released through Universal-International Pictures Co., Inc. Presented by Walter Wanger. New York opening at the Winter Garden: 15 January 1948. U.S. release: February 1948. U.K. release: December 1948. Australian release: 15 April 1948. Sydney opening at the Victory. 8,869 feet. 98 minutes.It's a funny thing but this film really grows on you after you've seen it a few times. In fact, on a third outing I found it quite disturbing. Admittedly the viewings were separated by some years but the initial response of disappointment and belief that it was not a typical Lang film have now changed with the latest sighting to a conviction that here indeed is the typical Fritz. You see I have now discounted some of the initial feelings about it being just a women's soap opera with Babs O'Neil making a fair fist of a sort of poor woman's Mrs Danvers. The film is very, very lavishly produced (it's not till the third viewing that you work out that the "rooms" would have to be models in order to contain the expense) and very atmospherically photographed and has a stinger of a score by Rozsa. Now that we've got the soap opera elements out of the way we can see details that we missed like the gypsy knife fight and the very idea of collecting rooms and the background of the characters. Admittedly, the denouement is still a bit hard to take - just how nuts is Redgrave, does he really mean to kill B and if so why? Miss B is given the lion's share of the camera with flattering costumes and even an off-screen commentary (the sudden switch at the climax to an off-camera commentary by Redgrave is another element that doesn't work) but she is no Joan Fontaine. Still it's a film that certainly repays re-viewing, its sets, its score, its atmosphere and any film photographed by Cortez is a MUST-SEE anyway.

ma-cortes Pseudo-Hitch intriguing drama about a woman who gradually realizes she is married to a killer and may be next on his list .This classic suspense film contains emotion , intrigue , chills, and evocative scenarios . When a lovely as well as wealthy heiress named Celia (Joan Bennett) spends a fun holiday she meets a good-looking guy called Mark Lamphere and ends up falling in love with him . Later on , she marries the widower (Michael Redgrave's first American film) and finds out weird happenings about him . She and her new husband, settle in an ancient mansion on the East coast, she discovers he may want to kill her . Understandably , she wonders what plans he might have for her . The mansion has got a lot of rooms that are replicas of known murder sites . In the tour of the three rooms, Mark Lamphere recounts the tales of three murders, all of which are fictional. However in the first room, he mentions the St Bartholomew's Day massacre and the Guise family in France. The massacre is a real historical event, where French Roman Catholics attacked French Huguenots (Protestants) on 24th of August 1572 resulting in many deaths.Dazzling Hitch/style suspense movie about a beautiful woman marries a rare man with a shock revelation around every corner their mansion . It packs hallucination , treason , Bennett plays a rich wife trying to help her hubby , well played by Michael Redgrave , who is suffering from amnesia and who might be a murderer too . The picture takes elements from classic Hitchcock films , carrying out a crossover among ¨Suspicion ¨, ¨Spellbound¨ and ¨Rebeca¨ . In fact ,Fritz Lang's attempt to do his version of Rebeca (1940) was a project fraught with disaster. It ran over budget and over schedule, while Lang was at constant loggerheads with his leading lady, Joan Bennett . As it stars the great Joan Bennett , being compellingly directed by Lang ; but it is not as outstanding as their former movies together : ¨Man hunt¨, ¨The woman in the window¨ and ¨Scarlet street¨. Support cast is pretty good such as Anne Revere as Caroline Lamphere , Barbara O'Neil as Miss Robey and Paul Cavanagh as Rick Barrett . Atmospheric as well as mistly cinematography in black and white by Stanley Cortez . Thrilling and frightening musical score by the classic Miklos Rozsa . The motion picture was professionally directed by Fritz Lang . Lang directed masterfully all kind of genres as Noir cinema as ¨Big heat , Scarlet Street and Beyond a reasonable doubt¨ , Epic as ¨Nibelungs¨, suspense as ¨Secret beyond the door, Clash by night¨ , Western as ¨Rancho Notorious and Return of Frank James ¨ and of course Adventure as ¨Moonfleet¨ .

Robert J. Maxwell Fritz Lang directed this story of a young woman (Bennett) engaged to an ordinary, somewhat stuffy, but well-meaning lawyer. Bennett takes a vacation in a studio-bound Mexico where she meets a mysterious stranger (Redgrave) who seems to be able to peel away the hard enamel and expose the somewhat feral contents.Fritz Lang's best work was probably behind him, and Bennett's locutions are a little too British. (Her "pahst" rolls before her eyes as she narrates the story. It's not exactly RP but it's certainly not Yorkshire or New York either.) Michael Redgrave is a convincing actor but not much of a stereotypical man of mystery. His appeal rests partly on his ability to project a light-hearted open quality.Yet, this screenplay is quite well written. When Redgrave first speaks to Bennett he compares her to the weather in the Dakotas, the sunny stillness with the turbulence of a storm still to come, and the first breath of wind bending the wheat, etc. It sounds more perfumed than it is when Redgrave delivers these observations. Disregarding the Harlequin romance inherent in the situation, some effort (and talent) when into this dialog.And listen to some of Bennett's narration. She witnesses a a knife fight between two gypsies over a woman. She doesn't run away. She's enthralled. "I'd seen fights before but this was different. Death was in the air. And I thought of the woman -- how proud she must be." The woman is proud of having two men fight to the death for her. It's far from what you'd expect from a carelessly written character, but Bennett's is not a carelessly written character. Sometimes the narration IS over explicit. At one point, during Redgrave's absence, we see her pacing nervously for about twenty seconds, while the narration tells us, "I walked and I worried. I walked and I worried." Why bring in the backhoe when the garden trowel was doing just fine on its own?After a while the story begins to look like familiar variations on a theme, a kind of pastiche. A bored woman, swept off her feet and married to a man about whom she knows practically nothing, not even that he's been previously married. He takes her home to his mansion where she meets strange characters, mostly distant and unfriendly. She pries but gets little. And Redgrave begins to act queerly, overtaken by arid moods. "Rebecca" is probably the main source. There is even a Mrs. Danvers character whose face is draped with a scarf. Bennett's suspicion grows that Redgrave murdered his first wife. At the same time there is a secret room that he always keeps locked -- until Bennett tries to make a copy of the only key. The scent that hangs in the air is not that of the lilies and lilacs that everyone keeps talking about but L'Eau de Jane Eyre. That reminds me. I was able to grow a sprig of jasmine once. I almost got high when I first sniffed it. It turned all other volatile terpines plebian. It all ends in an explosion of psychobabble.Lang certainly knows how to make good use of mirrors and ominous shadows but overall the movie struck me as rather slow and complicated. It's not far removed from the Lifetime Movie Network.

vintageartist57 Rather tepid 1940s thriller. Joan Bennett is beautiful, however, as is the cinematography. Really strikingly shot, which makes it well worth watching; it is reminiscent of Spellbound in parts, with a surreal edge to some of the backdrops.The story, very loosely based on the old Bluebeard fairy tale, is interesting, but the pacing of the film is off, and you never really feel much tension. There are some interesting characters in the house, especially the secretary, but they aren't very developed. So much more could have been done in this area, to make it a truly great film.Without giving anything away, I doubt many of us would have made the same decision that the main characters did in the end. But don't let that distract you from the truly beautiful fashion of this film.