jrzrichardson

Mighty dramatic goings-on surrounding an "inappropriate relationship", with a side of the brother-in-law always running his mouth. Some parts were unintentionally funny, invoking thoughts of a Carol Burnett parody waiting to made: like Laraine Day running wildly in the street, being accidentally sprayed with water, falling down and missing the bus by a moment. Mostly she is suspiciously silent (using her very pretty and expressive features to do the acting), wandering back and forth in a daze. She should have been given more lines, if only to relieve us of the sound of Dane Clark's voice. Plot misstep: if she loved Tone so much, why didn't she try to get him immediate medical help??

Agnes Moorehead was the steady anchor these hysterical characters needed.

It kept my attention, and I was able to ignore a few holes in the plot (for example, the assumed innocence of Steve right from the start ... in spite of Julie's pleas "We KNOW he couldn't have murdered anyone"... the viewer doesn't) but when it got to Lysa's song in the Topaz Room, the odd orchestral accompaniment had me scratching my head. Why drown out that beautiful voice with a trumpet solo in a different key? And then at the party, Lysa playing simultaneously two different songs (it sounds like) on the piano, the movie suddenly turned into a comedy. I laughed to tears. From that point I watched for the (unintentional) laughs.

I enjoyed seeing Sheila MacRae gracefully lurching and falling as she was shot several times, without a hint of blood or visual evidence whatsoever.