This movie begins with a very scary, well done expressionistic montage about nightmares and dreams. Then the movie starts. Unfortunately, none of the movie lives up to that opening. Barbara Stanwyck (very good in her last theatrical role) is married to a bitter, blind man. He dies (maybe) in an explosion. However, she starts to have dreams about him being alive and they begin to drive her mad. Is he alive, or dead, or is she just going crazy?
Not a bad premise...some of the nightmare sequences are spooky and the great music score is very eerie, but the film doesn't have enough material to sustain and hour and a half length. This would have been a great hour long short. Also Robert Taylor looks miserable (he was suffering from cancer at the time) and the ending is confusing (and ridiculous). Also having Stanwyck scream was a bad idea (her voice is so low, the scream sounds very strange). Worth seeing if you're home alone late at night. Otherwise, forget it.
Not a bad premise...some of the nightmare sequences are spooky and the great music score is very eerie, but the film doesn't have enough material to sustain and hour and a half length. This would have been a great hour long short. Also Robert Taylor looks miserable (he was suffering from cancer at the time) and the ending is confusing (and ridiculous). Also having Stanwyck scream was a bad idea (her voice is so low, the scream sounds very strange). Worth seeing if you're home alone late at night. Otherwise, forget it.