Dark Past
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List Price: $19.98
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• Black & White
• Color
• NTSC
In Theaters : 1946
Video Release : 16 May, 2000 |
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The Lost Weekend
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I watched "The Dark Past" because I (generally) enjoy William Holden films. He plays a rather different role in this movie but he does alright. I recently had seen Lee J. Cobb in one of his best roles in "The Man in the Grey Flannel Suit" and was looking forward to seeing another movie of his from that era. He is good although not as good as in TMITGFS. I noticed Lois Maxwell's name in the cast which made me wonder if it was Miss Moneypenny but I didn't make the visual connection.
"The Dark Past" is based on the play "Blind Alley" if I'm not mistaken. I'm not familiar with that play but I WAS reminded of "The Petrified Forest". The opening and conclusion of the movie makes a reasonable moral statement. The body of the movie is somewhat suspenseful but the real focus is on the psychological study that goes on between Cobb and Holden. It's well done (reminding me somewhat of "Spellbound") but it also made me wonder why there were house guests. They really didn't add much to the plot except to suggest that psychiatrists are poor party planners (who came up with the idea of inviting two men and one woman). Also, the bad guys were a bit inept. How else do you explain that 4 criminals were guarding 9 innocent people, one of them escapes and nobody ever even figured that out.
The psychiatry involved in the movie was rather out-dated but I didn't let it bother me too much. The movie only runs about 75 minutes and is worth seeing (once). |
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