Word: joans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With fewer pictures scheduled, Hollywood will concentrate on 1) the sprightly, clever picture which can easily show a profit because of the small original cost, or 2) the surefire spectacle, such as the coming $6,000,000 Joan of Lorraine (heavily "insured" by Ingrid Bergman's star-power...
...Producer Joan Harrison & associates have brought the story to the screen with considerable skill. Mr. Young and Miss Johnson are excellent as the ill-mated man & wife; Susan Hayward proficiently sells her special brand of sexiness; Miss Greer is a comely beginner. And many of the minor roles are more sharply drawn and cast than the leads. The jury, for instance, may be caricatured, but it is frightening to consider that such a group holds in its hands a life even so patently worthless as Mr. Young...
...wonder that Joan's mind began to come apart. A prey to confused motives, she tried to "save" the girl from Heflin when she was really trying to save him for herself. She also gradually became convinced that she had murdered Massey's wife. Even more frightening hallucinations followed. After a fierce burst of melodrama, Joan winds up on the hospital cot. The cautious prognosis: she is a schizophrene, but conceivably curable...
...housemaid's knee than on film. But the picture's writers, director and musicians have done some effective things with sound (heartbeats, exaggerated rain, distorted musical flashbacks, etc.) and with storytelling; they have even risked confusing the audience by taking it a little way inside Joan's split sense of reality. Other moviemakers ought to take more such risks: the results are much more exciting than confusing...
...Woman on the Beach. Joan Bennett, Charles Bickford and Robert Ryan in an intelligent triangular thriller, well directed by Jean Renoir (TIME, June...