....between Wendell Corey and Barbara Stanwyck. It's a shame because with a few changes this could have been a good film noir.
As it is I kept falling asleep and it took 3 nights for me to finish. I'm usually a fan of Stanwyck and think she's about the best actress from the golden age. My problem with her is that she's wearing that horrible late 1940s-early 1950s matronly helmet head hair. It ages any woman 20 years. This is a time period that I love but that hairdo was horrible!
My next issue was Wendell Corey. To me he's always the bland and boring Carl in Holiday Affair. There's no sizzle between him and Stanwyck. Robert Mitchum would have been much better in the part. The flimsy reason his character had for cheating on his gorgeous wife didn't work.
Finally, although I'm in the minority (probably all alone in this), I don't mind the Production Code. It forced the majority of movies to be much better quality than the dreck that's been coming out of Hollywood for years. That said, the ending was silly and as others have said, Thelma (terrible femme fatale name) had not a hair out of place or a smudge in her makeup after a car wreck! Only worth 5 stars.
As it is I kept falling asleep and it took 3 nights for me to finish. I'm usually a fan of Stanwyck and think she's about the best actress from the golden age. My problem with her is that she's wearing that horrible late 1940s-early 1950s matronly helmet head hair. It ages any woman 20 years. This is a time period that I love but that hairdo was horrible!
My next issue was Wendell Corey. To me he's always the bland and boring Carl in Holiday Affair. There's no sizzle between him and Stanwyck. Robert Mitchum would have been much better in the part. The flimsy reason his character had for cheating on his gorgeous wife didn't work.
Finally, although I'm in the minority (probably all alone in this), I don't mind the Production Code. It forced the majority of movies to be much better quality than the dreck that's been coming out of Hollywood for years. That said, the ending was silly and as others have said, Thelma (terrible femme fatale name) had not a hair out of place or a smudge in her makeup after a car wreck! Only worth 5 stars.