Monday, September 6, 2010

Shockproof (1947), Douglas Sirk.

Good heavens, that is a lot of pattern.

My first taste of Sam Fuller's writing, which may have been diluted/mangled by co-writer Helen Deutsch.  Shockproof has an interesting premise:  that parole officer Griff Marat (Cornel Wilde) falls for his pretty new parolee Jenny Marsh (Patricia Knight).  But each step forward in the unfolding of the story I thought to myself, as if!  I did get the sense that some old biddy crossed out a lot of passages from a pulp novel while shaking her head & clicking her tongue.  But there's too much gone haywire with this script for me to think we can blame it all on co-writers.

  A passerby catches sight of a suicide.


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