Review of The Two Mrs. Carrolls

The only reason to watch this film is because Bogart and Stanwyck are starring in it. Bogie practices his full-screen nutty facial expressions that later became famous in "The Treasure of Sierra Madre" and "The Caine Mutiny". Stanwyck recreates her "horrified-I'm about to be murdered looks" from "Sorry Wrong Number". The plot is pretty hokey and transparent but, like I said, it is fun to see great actors having fun, and it looks like they did on this film. I would bet that this movie was filmed in a few weeks time. I thought that Bogie's daughter would be the one to expose her Dad but she only gave clues to Stanwyck that caused her to be suspicious. As mentioned on the review the "milk out the window" later became "milk all over the sill and floor" for Bogie to realize that his poison milk was exposed to his wife. I saw this on TCM and there were satellite problems or something but only small parts were skipped. This movie, like so many Hollywood plots, has the "good guy" boyfriend that the wife should have married who comes to the rescue. What is funny is that in "real life" there is no way that Stanwyck would have married creepy Bogart and not the debonair, handsome Englishman that she was engaged to prior to Bogie. Of course, "real life" movies are not always good box office or much fun to see.