Bedevilled (1955)
2/10
Weak, colorless thriller, even in color.
7 October 2010
Warning: Spoilers
There is no real reason of interest here as to why Seminarian Steve Forrest should help café singer Anne Baxter who has killed her married lover and is on the run from the police and the murdered man's family and associates. There is also no clue as to why the mysterious Baxter even deserves audience sympathy other than the fact that she got stuck with this turkey. She's beautiful, as always, and does what she can to retain her dignity, but other than her presence in it, the film is a disastrous bore. Her character is dull, and Steve Forrest's manly presence makes him wrong for the part of a future priest. The Parisian streets could have added more allure to the photography, but little is done to take advantage of the location. This appears to be a way to have utilized the same crew and same sets for the earlier "The Last Time I Saw Paris" to save money. What they were missing was the script.
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