Linda Darnell is an amazing femme fatale and the movie suffers without her. I hate when movies make the intelligent woman fell in love with the crook, especially because it feels so out of character for them and they do it without a believable justification. The same happened in Suspicion with Joan Fontaine’s character. It’s a waste of potential for more conflict and an interesting story. Here Alice Faye begins as a woman true to her convictions but after two dates with Dana Andrews she’s willing to marry him. That’s so confusing to me, he didn’t do anything particularly special to win her over. I like the poem she tells him about how love can make a fallen angel rise again. But that theme doesn’t really transcribe to the screen at all. I would’ve liked a story about a good girl falling in love with a bad boy and trying to rehabilitate him and maybe succeeding or maybe not. But here the conclusion is so rushed and neither of the characters are fleshed out or compelling enough. Either way it was fun time and the score is really good.
Linda Darnell is an amazing femme fatale and the movie suffers without her. I hate when movies make the intelligent woman fell in love with the crook, especially because it feels so out of character for them and they do it without a believable justification. The same happened in Suspicion with Joan Fontaine’s character. It’s a waste of potential for more conflict and an interesting story. Here Alice Faye begins as a woman true to her convictions but after two dates with Dana Andrews she’s willing to marry him. That’s so confusing to me, he didn’t do anything particularly special to win her over. I like the poem she tells him about how love can make a fallen angel rise again. But that theme doesn’t really transcribe to the screen at all. I would’ve liked a story about a good girl falling in love with a bad boy and trying to rehabilitate him and maybe succeeding or maybe not. But here the conclusion is so rushed and neither of the characters are fleshed out or compelling enough. Either way it was fun time and the score is really good.
