This movie is a dismal failure.
There was not a single sympathetic character in the entire tedious, boring story.
Laughton did his best, but he had little to work with.
Could have been a little better if at least one of the females involved had been attractive, but none were.
What misery.
If this were the only movie I had ever seen, I would never see another one.
This adaption of a play starts out more strongly with Laughton asserting himself as the obnoxious character who bullies his daughters.
From there it goes downhill.
Laughton is really not very convincing as a heavy.
As the movie proceeds it gets more and more dull, boring, lifeless-- until by the end I wished I could have the time back I wasted in watching it.
There was not a single sympathetic character in the entire tedious, boring story.
Laughton did his best, but he had little to work with.
Could have been a little better if at least one of the females involved had been attractive, but none were.
What misery.
If this were the only movie I had ever seen, I would never see another one.
This adaption of a play starts out more strongly with Laughton asserting himself as the obnoxious character who bullies his daughters.
From there it goes downhill.
Laughton is really not very convincing as a heavy.
As the movie proceeds it gets more and more dull, boring, lifeless-- until by the end I wished I could have the time back I wasted in watching it.