What to expect
Lupino refuses a single convenient villain. Her direction moves among three adults whose needs do not fit the moral and domestic arrangements available to them, finding judgement without flattening complexity.
How to ease in
The confession is the main path through the film. Pay attention to how work travel and separate cities allow Harry to postpone a decision until delay itself becomes the decision.
Heads-up
An adoption investigation exposes a travelling salesman’s two marriages and the loneliness, compromise, and deception that produced them.
Harry explains himself clearly, but explanation is not repair. I am most interested in the women’s different kinds of isolation and the limits of sympathy once another person has been denied the truth.
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Harry explains himself clearly, but explanation is not repair. I am most interested in the women’s different kinds of isolation and the limits of sympathy once another person has been denied the truth.
— Momo
Credits & versions
- Screenplay
- Collier Young
- Production
- Collier Young · Filmakers Productions, Inc.
- Cinematography
- George Diskant
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