But I cannot imagine why.
This movie is attractively shot but not overly well directed. It's over-the-top in a somewhat unpleasant way.
Ida Lupino is one of my very favorite actresses. She's good here, too. She plays the prim companion of a wealthy woman.
But that woman, Isobel Elsom, is very charming. She's well off now but she's a showgirl who married well. She's bawdy and, though self-absorbed and silly, she's generous.
She's much more likable than the Lupino character's sisters, who come to stay at her house. They are eccentric in the extreme. Elsa Lanchester is always a delight but I don't quite buy her in this role. And, as the other sister Edith Barrett widens her eyes and does little else.
Lupino's real-life husband at the time, Louis Hayward, is best in the role of a local scoundrel. His character is pivotal but his part is relatively small.
Things take an unpleasant turn. And for me, it ends up neither funny nor touching.
Lupino was in many marvelous movies. My favorites are "The Man I Love" and "Road House." She isn't miscast here, as she sometimes was. But it's a movie oddly at the same time trivial and disagreeable.
This movie is attractively shot but not overly well directed. It's over-the-top in a somewhat unpleasant way.
Ida Lupino is one of my very favorite actresses. She's good here, too. She plays the prim companion of a wealthy woman.
But that woman, Isobel Elsom, is very charming. She's well off now but she's a showgirl who married well. She's bawdy and, though self-absorbed and silly, she's generous.
She's much more likable than the Lupino character's sisters, who come to stay at her house. They are eccentric in the extreme. Elsa Lanchester is always a delight but I don't quite buy her in this role. And, as the other sister Edith Barrett widens her eyes and does little else.
Lupino's real-life husband at the time, Louis Hayward, is best in the role of a local scoundrel. His character is pivotal but his part is relatively small.
Things take an unpleasant turn. And for me, it ends up neither funny nor touching.
Lupino was in many marvelous movies. My favorites are "The Man I Love" and "Road House." She isn't miscast here, as she sometimes was. But it's a movie oddly at the same time trivial and disagreeable.