TCM: Film Preservation Presentations
The Red Shoes (1947) Moira Shearer, Anton Walbrook. Absolutely gorgeous restoration of a favorite film. Color is clear and bright. A beloved film I watch often. 10/10
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0040725/combined
Secret Behind The Door (1948) Joan Bennett, Michael Redgrave, Anne Revere, Barbara O'Neil. Fritz Lang directs a slow plot about a woman visiting Mexico who meets a handsome stranger and marries him after just a few days. She was supposed to be deciding whether to marry heer long-time beau, but ends up going to her new husbands home. There she meets his sister, secretary and son. All strange characters. The set up is pretty good, but Redgrave is sleep-walking and the plot just never jells. Bennett is beautiful and this is her 3rd film with this director. Not their best, which I think was "Woman In The Window." 6/10 http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0040766/combined
The Prowler (1951) Evelyn Keyes, Van Heflin. Cop Webb Garwood (Heflin) and his partner answer a prowler call at an upscale house where they find scared Susan Gilvray. Her husband is a radio personality with an evening show so she is alone. Webb immediately starts making moves but the team leaves. Webb comes back later without his partner just to check up, he says. This time they discover the come from the same Indiana town and when she goes to get coffee, he looks through the desk papers. He discovers that the lady will be a wealthy woman if anything happens to her husband. From then on Heflin makes his character Webb, charming - but shifty. The events that follow keep you guessing whether he really has fallen for Susan or is 'playing' her to finally have his dream of a business of his own. And he ends up shooting her husband in a prowler mixup. Or is it? That the plot takes our couple a ghost town in the Mohave desert, a baby born, and a shootout, before the fade. Very good noir and keeps your interest throughout. The two lead actors as excellent and are aided by good character actors in support. 8/10 http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0043938/combined
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