Posted on Tuesday, 16 August 2011

BEWARE, MY LOVELY (Horner, 1952) - I feel like I should have liked this one more, but that could be the tummy-ache. After all, it has Robert Ryan playing a psychopath who goes from one mood to the next in a split second, Ida Lupino as the woman desperately trying to get away from him, and a lot of cool angles. It should have been as tense as SORRY, WRONG NUMBER, but it wasn’t, somehow. Maybe Lupino’s character wasn’t defined enough, maybe Ryan was too over-the-top in some scenes - or maybe it was just the gurgling in my belly distracting me. 

BEWARE, MY LOVELY (Horner, 1952) - I feel like I should have liked this one more, but that could be the tummy-ache. After all, it has Robert Ryan playing a psychopath who goes from one mood to the next in a split second, Ida Lupino as the woman desperately trying to get away from him, and a lot of cool angles. It should have been as tense as SORRY, WRONG NUMBER, but it wasn’t, somehow. Maybe Lupino’s character wasn’t defined enough, maybe Ryan was too over-the-top in some scenes - or maybe it was just the gurgling in my belly distracting me. 

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