malcolmgsw Review of Beware of Pity

Beware of Pity (1946)

Directed at a funereal pace this film fails to engage

[4/10 · 25 April 2013]

This film is clearly designed to leap on the Gainsborough bandwagon and provide a 4 hankie weepie.Unfortunately it totally fails in its intent and by the time it reaches its predictable climax you are urging Lilli Palmer just to get on with it to end your suffering.Since to watch this film right through is to suffer the most enormous pangs of boredom.Little wonder the UK audiences preferred American films when this sort of rubbish was foisted on them.Even with the patina of age this film has not worn well.Palmer is a fine actress but even she cannot make much of such a self obsessed part.It is difficult to believe that Albert Levien could feel anything for her.So if anyone deserves pity it is the poor viewer