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Desire Me (MGM) is a rather peremptory title that is taken pretty seriously by Greer Garson, Robert Mitchum and Richard Hart, all of whom pretend, with varying degrees of success, to be French...
...Hart, a rat of the Paris sewers, tells Miss Garson that her husband (Mr. Mitchum) died before his eyes, as a prisoner of war in Germany. Since the audience knows that Mr. Hart knows that Mr. Mitchum is alive, it is clear that he desires Miss Garson more than he ought. Believing his story, and tired of "waiting" (a word used in this film as a ten-ton synonym for celibacy), Miss Garson somewhat disconsolately, but uncensorably, starts desiring Hart...
Just as they are about to leave the quaint fishing village for Paris and married love, Mitchum turns up from years of imprisonment, with a beard and more desire than both of them put together. A beautifully photographed fog promptly descends, through which the three principals grope, knife, shoot and shout their way toward a predictable ending...
...solar plexus. Especially memorable: its accurately ugly talk, characterization and atmosphere, strung up to high melodramatic tension-one talent in which Hollywood still leads the world. Robert Young does modestly and well as the detective whose job it is to smell out the apparently unmotivated killer. Robert Mitchum has a great deal of laconic authority as the sergeant who holds the harassed gang of soldiers together; Robert Ryan turns in the scariest performance of the season as the over-talkative, pathological Jew-hater. Gloria Grahame is one of the very few well-baked tarts in any recent movie. And Paul...
...Locket (RKO Radio) is a dull blend of two of Hollywood's hardest-worn current themes: psychiatry and vicious womanhood. Laraine Day is a sweet-faced wanton who lies, cheats, steals and murders her way through the ruination of three remarkably gullible leading men (Robert Mitchum, Brian Aherne, Gene Raymond...