Alison Courtland (Claudette Colbert) is victim of amnesia , unable to remember why she left left New York city on a train to Boston . As she wakes up in the middle of the night on board a train, but she cannot remember how she got there. Along the way, on the train , she meets a sympathetic man named Bruce Elcott (Robert Cummings) who helps her . Later on , she finds her husband (Don Ameche) and the sinister Charles Vernay (George Coulouris) . Danger and suspense ensue....the most terrifying words a man ever whispered to a woman!
...the cast of the year in the picture of the year!
From the opening moments aboard a train rushing throughout the rail , intrigue , suspense and tension are kept up tense pacing . "Sleep, My Love" is a pretty good movie , though unfortuntely , this nice work was dismissed by Douglas Sirk himself . In the wake of ¨Gaslight¨ directed by George Cukor with Colbert's demise being planning by her apparently loving hubby . Suspenseful and intriguing scenes by giving rise to a suitably nightmarish evocation of shifting appearances and rare insanity . Well directed in Film Noir-mould and while not the first film to take advantage of the drugs can be used when essential to the plot loophole , certainly the use of a drug was most fundamental to the story . Claudette Colbert delivers a very good acting as the damsel in distress deceived by her husband . When she made this picture Claudette had been a top-star for over 20 years and she was approaching the end of the main , uninterrumpted part of her glorious career .While the interpretation is strong through , nowhere more so than a dark role performed by George Coulouris as a bogus psychiatrist . Support cast is frankly good , such as : Rita Johnson , Queenie Smith, Ralph Morgan , a young Keye Luke to have a long career and includes an early intervention by Raymond Burr as an Investigator and special mention for gorgeous Hazel Brooks as a femme fatal .
It contains experessionist cinematography by Joseph Valentine , with plenty of lights and shades . This Mary Pickford United Artists's production for Triangle Productions was well directed by the long-neglected , nowadays esteemed Douglas Sirk , who made a compelling and superb work equal to his competent films of the mid to late 50s . He was a fundamental filmmaker who gave prestigious movies , usually collaborating with similar technicians as cameraman Russell Metty , Production Designer Alexander Golitzen , Producer Ross Hunter and writer George Zuckerman . Sirk directed a lot of classic melodramas , such as : Never say goobye , Interlude , Summerstorm , The first legion , The lady pays off , Tarnished Angels , A time to love a time to die , Magnificent obsession , All that heaven allows , Written in the Wind . But he also directed other genres as WWII : Mystery submarine , Hitler's madmen , A time to love and a time to die ; Thrillers and Film Noir : Shockproof , Thunder on the hill , A scandal in Paris , Lured ; Historical : Attila with Jack Palance ; Adventures : Thunderbolt and Lightfoot with Hudson and Barbara Rush ; and even a Western : Taza . Rating : 7/10 , better than average . Worthwhile watching.
From the opening moments aboard a train rushing throughout the rail , intrigue , suspense and tension are kept up tense pacing . "Sleep, My Love" is a pretty good movie , though unfortuntely , this nice work was dismissed by Douglas Sirk himself . In the wake of ¨Gaslight¨ directed by George Cukor with Colbert's demise being planning by her apparently loving hubby . Suspenseful and intriguing scenes by giving rise to a suitably nightmarish evocation of shifting appearances and rare insanity . Well directed in Film Noir-mould and while not the first film to take advantage of the drugs can be used when essential to the plot loophole , certainly the use of a drug was most fundamental to the story . Claudette Colbert delivers a very good acting as the damsel in distress deceived by her husband . When she made this picture Claudette had been a top-star for over 20 years and she was approaching the end of the main , uninterrumpted part of her glorious career .While the interpretation is strong through , nowhere more so than a dark role performed by George Coulouris as a bogus psychiatrist . Support cast is frankly good , such as : Rita Johnson , Queenie Smith, Ralph Morgan , a young Keye Luke to have a long career and includes an early intervention by Raymond Burr as an Investigator and special mention for gorgeous Hazel Brooks as a femme fatal .
It contains experessionist cinematography by Joseph Valentine , with plenty of lights and shades . This Mary Pickford United Artists's production for Triangle Productions was well directed by the long-neglected , nowadays esteemed Douglas Sirk , who made a compelling and superb work equal to his competent films of the mid to late 50s . He was a fundamental filmmaker who gave prestigious movies , usually collaborating with similar technicians as cameraman Russell Metty , Production Designer Alexander Golitzen , Producer Ross Hunter and writer George Zuckerman . Sirk directed a lot of classic melodramas , such as : Never say goobye , Interlude , Summerstorm , The first legion , The lady pays off , Tarnished Angels , A time to love a time to die , Magnificent obsession , All that heaven allows , Written in the Wind . But he also directed other genres as WWII : Mystery submarine , Hitler's madmen , A time to love and a time to die ; Thrillers and Film Noir : Shockproof , Thunder on the hill , A scandal in Paris , Lured ; Historical : Attila with Jack Palance ; Adventures : Thunderbolt and Lightfoot with Hudson and Barbara Rush ; and even a Western : Taza . Rating : 7/10 , better than average . Worthwhile watching.