This movie reminded me of several better known films from the same time period. The Architect as hero, "The Fountainhead", the interplay of delusion and reality as in more than one of Hitchcock's films, such as "Vertigo" where the hero suffers a trauma of some sort, and the burning of a home, as in the Daphne du Maurier story "Rebecca".
The thing that is brought off successfully in my opinion was the question of whether Robert Young's character was in his right mind or not. He is characterized as a paranoiac and some things he did seemed to suggest this. His attempted suicide was another one. The various strange things that happened. However it did seem from time to time that others might be involved in his various mysterious misfortunes. Nothing fit, and nothing really made sense until the end, when, as in a bad dream you wake up, and the pieces fit together, sort of. The fact that in the end the denouement offers a rather tortured clarification of the mystery, is not that much of a defect, in view of the entertaining nature of the ride and the stunning pictures of the pounding surf.
The thing that is brought off successfully in my opinion was the question of whether Robert Young's character was in his right mind or not. He is characterized as a paranoiac and some things he did seemed to suggest this. His attempted suicide was another one. The various strange things that happened. However it did seem from time to time that others might be involved in his various mysterious misfortunes. Nothing fit, and nothing really made sense until the end, when, as in a bad dream you wake up, and the pieces fit together, sort of. The fact that in the end the denouement offers a rather tortured clarification of the mystery, is not that much of a defect, in view of the entertaining nature of the ride and the stunning pictures of the pounding surf.