Flesh and Fantasy (1943)
Country: US
Technical: bw 94m
Director: Julien Duvivier
Cast: Robert Benchley, Edward G. Robinson, Barbara Stanwyck, Charles Boyer, Betty Field, Robert Cummings
Synopsis:
Three interlocking tales with an uncanny twist.
Review:
Duvivier returns to the portmanteau format of Tales of Manhattan, and Un Carnet de Bal before that, with this provocatively titled collection of romantic or macabre stories which is bound to promise more than it delivers. As often with this genre, much hangs on the uneven quality of the individual tales and here only the central segment, based on Lord Arthur Savile's Crime, really gets a thumbs up. The other two, about a mask conferring beauty and a trapeze artist beset by dreams of disaster, are weakly written and indifferently acted, and the Benchley narrated threading device is ill-advised.
Country: US
Technical: bw 94m
Director: Julien Duvivier
Cast: Robert Benchley, Edward G. Robinson, Barbara Stanwyck, Charles Boyer, Betty Field, Robert Cummings
Synopsis:
Three interlocking tales with an uncanny twist.
Review:
Duvivier returns to the portmanteau format of Tales of Manhattan, and Un Carnet de Bal before that, with this provocatively titled collection of romantic or macabre stories which is bound to promise more than it delivers. As often with this genre, much hangs on the uneven quality of the individual tales and here only the central segment, based on Lord Arthur Savile's Crime, really gets a thumbs up. The other two, about a mask conferring beauty and a trapeze artist beset by dreams of disaster, are weakly written and indifferently acted, and the Benchley narrated threading device is ill-advised.
Country: US
Technical: bw 94m
Director: Julien Duvivier
Cast: Robert Benchley, Edward G. Robinson, Barbara Stanwyck, Charles Boyer, Betty Field, Robert Cummings
Synopsis:
Three interlocking tales with an uncanny twist.
Review:
Duvivier returns to the portmanteau format of Tales of Manhattan, and Un Carnet de Bal before that, with this provocatively titled collection of romantic or macabre stories which is bound to promise more than it delivers. As often with this genre, much hangs on the uneven quality of the individual tales and here only the central segment, based on Lord Arthur Savile's Crime, really gets a thumbs up. The other two, about a mask conferring beauty and a trapeze artist beset by dreams of disaster, are weakly written and indifferently acted, and the Benchley narrated threading device is ill-advised.