- Sinister, dueling psychoanalyst-thriller feels like an easy Hitchcockian exercise with a fragile heroine, elaborate murder plot and a classic villain, the demented hypnotist David Korvo, played mercilessly by José Ferrer.
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Targeting a rival psychologists' hapless, delicate wife (Gene Tierney), Korvo unleashes his scheme, which unfolds (and concludes) perhaps a bit too predictably. Yet the film has an economical, hard-boiled veracity that's easy to admire. [B-]
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"WHERE THE SIDEWALK ENDS" (1950)
- This Laura reunion (reuniting director Otto Preminger with stars Dana Andrews and Gene Tierney) has all of the necessary elements of a prototypical film noir - cynical detective, angelic femme fatale, textbook fatalism - but its conclusion is overly generous.
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Andrews is superb as the short-tempered copper whose mistakes lead to his precarious situation which involves covering up a murder and an innocent man's life. If only it stuck with its convictions till the end. [B]
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