Years after her aunt was murdered in her home, a young woman (Ingrid Bergman) moves back into the house with her new husband (Charles Boyer). However, he has a secret which he will do anything to protect, even if that means driving his wife insane.
I think this is a very different kind of mystery. It involves a murder, but there is never really any doubt about the killer. And it involves a wife thinking she is going crazy, yet we know all along that she is not. (In fact, despite the praise she has received, I think Bergman overdid it a little bit on her acting here... I found it hard to believe that she was that stupid.)
Placing the film in the same era as the Jack the Ripper murders was a nice touch, as it could just have easily been the 1940s and the plot would not have been substantially altered. And the debut of Angela Lansbury? Truly remarkable. Who knew she had such a cockney accent inside her? Great film... a very solid performance from very solid talents. George Cukor never fails to succeed.
I think this is a very different kind of mystery. It involves a murder, but there is never really any doubt about the killer. And it involves a wife thinking she is going crazy, yet we know all along that she is not. (In fact, despite the praise she has received, I think Bergman overdid it a little bit on her acting here... I found it hard to believe that she was that stupid.)
Placing the film in the same era as the Jack the Ripper murders was a nice touch, as it could just have easily been the 1940s and the plot would not have been substantially altered. And the debut of Angela Lansbury? Truly remarkable. Who knew she had such a cockney accent inside her? Great film... a very solid performance from very solid talents. George Cukor never fails to succeed.