For reasons best known to herself Ida Lupino, a gifted director as well as a brilliant actress who enhanced any film in which she appeared, married Howard Duff, an actor who struggled to achieve mediocrity and they appeared in four films together. This is an elaborate spiral of little more than ectoplasm and auto-suggestion. The selling-point for me - other than Lupino who I'm happy to watch in anything - was Matt Dennis performing his own Angel Eyes but the longer the plot unspooled the less likely it appeared; the obvious spot was for Dennis to be featured in a niteclub but the action was virtually confined to the vast, cavernous mansion, in which Lupino was hired to caretake. Eventually they did contrive that she and Duff go dancing in the spot where Dennis was playing but it lacked credibility and clashed badly with the rest of the film.
Review of Jennifer
