"The question is, Frau Helm, were you lying then, are you lying now, or are you not in fact a chronic and habitual LIAR!!!"
Ask me in a month and it could be someone different but for now Charles Laughton gives my favorite screen performance of all time in this movie.
Raimi's instincts for how to calibrate the tone of a scene are second to none, I'm just mad that when Doc Ock lit his cigar he blew out the match instead of making his tentacle shake it out.
I finished the book earlier today and I couldn't see how they could make a movie out of it, but I knew it was a classic and I love Joan Crawford so of course I had to check it out.
It's a melodrama, a women's picture in film noir's clothing, which is so smart since the book is James M. Postman-Always-Rings-Twice-Cain’s attempt to move away from his hardboiled crime rag roots into a more sophisticated novel with a female protagonist.…
