I was curious because I heard that Kenneth Branagh did this on stage when he was very young. The movie, from 1948, is very violent and determinedly low in life, but the unpleasantness is off-set by how poor the performances are and how unbelievable the behaviour. When the actors move they're especially somnamulant. Not good enough to be funny, or I should say bad enough, really, as the great bad films, such as Plan 9 From Outer Space, or The Room, achieve.
The story is set in the USA but the actors and source material are British, and the amount of pretence involved to achieve accents and noir genre trappings, is too much for any audiences, historic or contemporary, to suspend disbelief. We are in Disbelief midtown.
Watch this only to make yourself love the classic noirs all the more.
The story is set in the USA but the actors and source material are British, and the amount of pretence involved to achieve accents and noir genre trappings, is too much for any audiences, historic or contemporary, to suspend disbelief. We are in Disbelief midtown.
Watch this only to make yourself love the classic noirs all the more.