Word: poison
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Some fish live by eating marine plants and others live by eating other fish. Both kinds can cause the mysterious poisoning. Dr. Halstead's hypothesis: the poison comes from plants, with the fish-eating fish picking it up from the plant eaters. The poison itself is probably an alkaloid, but Dr. Halstead has not been able to identify it. Next month, Dr. Halstead will head for Okinawa and Japan to get fresh material for his study: the western Pacific is full...
...live among California lettuce growers as the wife of an unbelievably naive Korean War veteran (Don Taylor). To Taylor's surprise, the folks at home do not warm up readily to his bride. She is patronized, insulted, finally slandered by a jealous in-law (Marie Windsor) in a poison-pen letter accusing her of an affair with a local Nisei farmer...
Camera technique and setting contribute greatly to the tension in Another Man's Poison. All the action is confined to an English manor and the surrounding moors. One shot of Miss Davis (rejected by her lover and abandoned by Merrill) standing alone in the huge manor is particularly impressive. The dialogue is good all the way and frequently comical. Miss Davis continues to speak her thoughts in her inimitable blunt fashion: "I killed my husband because I hated...
...murder stories, Justice must find a way. In this case, however, Justice does injustice to the story. Merrill drinks poison which Miss Davis failed to use for suicide, and a veterinary unknowingly gives the same poison to her to revive her from a fainting spell. I suspect that this was arranged so that Bette could give her best hysterical laugh at the end of the film...
...most respects, however, Another Man's Poison is good entertainment. My only complaint is that it does not live up to the high-pitched drama and impact of Miss Davis' previous productions...