When it comes to "rubble pictures," you got me at the first sight of devastation and lost souls in the late 40s/early 50s.
But there's got to be SOME believability. After the first ten minutes lets us know that her sister-in-law's world is filled with trouble, we're then supposed to believe that the lovely Claire Bloom is going to fall for this (very) shady James Mason character? She may be a young Englishwoman, but she lived through the war too -- her naivety simply doesn't wash. Is it that she believes she's taking him off her sister-in-law's hands? I don't buy it.
Mason is always good. And like I said, there are those of us who can hardly resist a story set in bombed-out Berlin. But with this unlikely plot, resist we can.
But there's got to be SOME believability. After the first ten minutes lets us know that her sister-in-law's world is filled with trouble, we're then supposed to believe that the lovely Claire Bloom is going to fall for this (very) shady James Mason character? She may be a young Englishwoman, but she lived through the war too -- her naivety simply doesn't wash. Is it that she believes she's taking him off her sister-in-law's hands? I don't buy it.
Mason is always good. And like I said, there are those of us who can hardly resist a story set in bombed-out Berlin. But with this unlikely plot, resist we can.