Released four months after "the three faces of Eve " (feat AA winner Joanne Woodward ), "Lizzie" does not compare favorably with it. It was the first time Hugo Haas had worked with big names such as Eleanor Parker and Richard Boone ,but he did not use them really efficiently.
The shrink's method is simplistic, he finds what is buried in Elizabeth's /Beth's /Lizzie's dark past in the fourth words association of the test ."Mother -mud " voila!
The subject actually recalls what would be fully realized in Hitchcock's underrated " Marnie" (1964),particularly the last scenes.
Hugo Haas was better at dealing with his usual deadly love triangle although there is at least one good scene : a piece of birthday cake as a phallic symbol !
The shrink's method is simplistic, he finds what is buried in Elizabeth's /Beth's /Lizzie's dark past in the fourth words association of the test ."Mother -mud " voila!
The subject actually recalls what would be fully realized in Hitchcock's underrated " Marnie" (1964),particularly the last scenes.
Hugo Haas was better at dealing with his usual deadly love triangle although there is at least one good scene : a piece of birthday cake as a phallic symbol !