For bobbit-4 - Marilyn Monroe is not in this film - anywhere! Moreover, there is no disturbed woman in the film. Whatever could you have been watching?
The film itself is enjoyable for the acting and not much more, but it does manage to hold one's interest. The screenplay is a bit of a mess, and the film looks to have been produced quickly and on the relative cheap. Dana Andrews, always a good but rarely inspiring actor, is exactly that here, and I think he smoked something like 26,248 cigarettes in the course of the story! I always thought that Eleanor Parker was arguably the most underrated actress in the entire history of talking films. She's the only person in this film whose character changes at all (Eddie Albert's character is so unbelievable that any change in it doesn't even count), but it's not all that much of a change, and it's too bad she couldn't have sunk her teeth into something a bit more meaty around this period like "Suddenly Last Summer" or "Freud". And Jeanne Crain was so damned gorgeous in it that it is impossible to believe that she was the mother of seven kids, six of them born before this film was made! I was rather hoping that the film would have a real jolting ending - like Andrews tossing over both Parker and Crain, and marrying the most intelligent and likable person in the film, Kathleen Freeman. Now that would have been something!
The film itself is enjoyable for the acting and not much more, but it does manage to hold one's interest. The screenplay is a bit of a mess, and the film looks to have been produced quickly and on the relative cheap. Dana Andrews, always a good but rarely inspiring actor, is exactly that here, and I think he smoked something like 26,248 cigarettes in the course of the story! I always thought that Eleanor Parker was arguably the most underrated actress in the entire history of talking films. She's the only person in this film whose character changes at all (Eddie Albert's character is so unbelievable that any change in it doesn't even count), but it's not all that much of a change, and it's too bad she couldn't have sunk her teeth into something a bit more meaty around this period like "Suddenly Last Summer" or "Freud". And Jeanne Crain was so damned gorgeous in it that it is impossible to believe that she was the mother of seven kids, six of them born before this film was made! I was rather hoping that the film would have a real jolting ending - like Andrews tossing over both Parker and Crain, and marrying the most intelligent and likable person in the film, Kathleen Freeman. Now that would have been something!