Malaga

Statuesque Dorothy Dandridge's follow-up to "Porgy and Bess", it's a return to the forties film noir ;aka "Malaga" where part of the action takes place ,it takes us from England to Spain .

The first fifteen minutes are almost silent in the darkness of a luxury house.The screenplay is deriivative but the Dandrige/Howard / Purdom acting is effective and gives the movie substance :;the main question ,all along the movie ,even when there are only two of them is :who can be trusted ? Once a betrayer ,always a betrayer ,they might say . Howard is first a macho ,who does not put his trust in women ,but little by little , he discovers that all are not necessarily femmes fatales.

It's a pity Miss Dandridge 's career was short-lived ,becaused she had already three good movies under her belt (" Porgy and Bess" plus "Carmen Jones " and "Tamango" ,both based on French writer Prosper Mérimée's short stories.)