This is The Forth film I saw for Joan Crawford after seeing (What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? 1962 , Mildred Pierce 1945 and Grand Hotel 1932) and to me her best performance was in What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
Now about this film : I don't know what to say, it's not a bad movie and it's not a good one. in the first 45 minutes the film is so boring the film show us a love or to be specific a blind love between an old-woman and a young man played by (Jack Palance) and you know from the beginning that he is a bad guy in these cases when you knew from the beginning the bad guy you become angry unless the film made it in a professional way ,( but not this one) cause Jack Palance face is evil so how could Miss.Crawford loved him I just don't know besides in all of his films he played the bad guy.( so nothing new) the big problem is that Joan Crawford couldn't convince anyone that she was in love with him although she is doing and performing it well she just didn't convince me there isn't a chemistry between these to leading stars. Then after the 45 minutes when she discovered that her lovely husband is a NEMESIS the movie began to get much better and it continuous till the end. but there were many scenes in the second part are funny and made me laugh ( although they didn't suppose to made you feel that way) such as the two imaging scenes they are just not real and when she made herself falling down the stairs if I were her I would probably broke my neck! As for Joan Crawford performance she is doing a good job here especially at the closet scene she did it in a great way and when she see here emotions after looking at herself at the mirror and feeling terrible about becoming a killer that was great one to. if you are Joan Crawford Fan(like me) see this Film , but don't expect too much.
Now about this film : I don't know what to say, it's not a bad movie and it's not a good one. in the first 45 minutes the film is so boring the film show us a love or to be specific a blind love between an old-woman and a young man played by (Jack Palance) and you know from the beginning that he is a bad guy in these cases when you knew from the beginning the bad guy you become angry unless the film made it in a professional way ,( but not this one) cause Jack Palance face is evil so how could Miss.Crawford loved him I just don't know besides in all of his films he played the bad guy.( so nothing new) the big problem is that Joan Crawford couldn't convince anyone that she was in love with him although she is doing and performing it well she just didn't convince me there isn't a chemistry between these to leading stars. Then after the 45 minutes when she discovered that her lovely husband is a NEMESIS the movie began to get much better and it continuous till the end. but there were many scenes in the second part are funny and made me laugh ( although they didn't suppose to made you feel that way) such as the two imaging scenes they are just not real and when she made herself falling down the stairs if I were her I would probably broke my neck! As for Joan Crawford performance she is doing a good job here especially at the closet scene she did it in a great way and when she see here emotions after looking at herself at the mirror and feeling terrible about becoming a killer that was great one to. if you are Joan Crawford Fan(like me) see this Film , but don't expect too much.