Word: denouements
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Suddenly Emily's little world is tumbling about her ears: for Harry and her madcap sister Janice are in love. Emily's talent for self-deceit teases off the denouement to a point where New Year bells are ringing, a strike boils over, a greathearted young organizer is killed by his own men, and Emily learns not only to hear again but to realize that she has been trying to shackle an unwilling fiancé with her deafness...
...casualness to his painful suspense. It leads the hero to the palatial Nevada ranch of the master saboteur (Otto Kruger), into the hands of the police, out of them to an abandoned desert mining town loaded with paraphernalia to blow up Boulder Dam, on to Manhattan and an ironic denouement. The Girl (Priscilla Lane), of course, is picked up en route...
...denouement was tragic. With an audience of a dozen or so peering from behind potted palms, he paced back and forth for some time, finally became worried and telephoned Miss Hepburn. "Where are you?" he asked. "Who are you?" said she. Result: no lunch...
This dippy denouement spoils the picture, but it does not spoil the excellence of many of its parts. Actors Grant and Fontaine make very attractive love to each other, turn in a high-grade performance. And, thanks to Hitchcock's tricks (letting the camera wander down cliffs, pause disturbingly on people's faces), the film has a texture that can almost be touched...
...mistress, a South American general, a shy French playwright, brilliantly acted by Austrian Oscar Karlweis, and a fat, macabre play director, who threatens just before the body is found: "I'll club him to death with his own truss." Crime Club members may get to thinking about the denouement and decide they were robbed. Less sophisticated mystery lovers probably get their money's worth...