A Letter to Three Wives (1949)
Country: US
Technical: bw 102m
Director: Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Cast: Jeanne Crain, Ann Sothern, Linda Darnell, Jeffrey Lynn, Kirk Douglas, Paul Douglas
Synopsis:
Three materialist wives accompanying their children on a boat trip are handed a letter by courier from a friend of theirs. She is running away with one of their husbands, but they won't know which until they get home.
Review:
This quaintly artificial premise comes across as a cosy Hollywood confection, ostensibly leavened by Mankiewicz's sharply cynical humour in the writing of dialogue. Unfortunately the emotional posturings of the characters strike such a phony note that the cynicism comes over as badly dated. In its day a quality product, and this is arguably what is wrong with it.
Country: US
Technical: bw 102m
Director: Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Cast: Jeanne Crain, Ann Sothern, Linda Darnell, Jeffrey Lynn, Kirk Douglas, Paul Douglas
Synopsis:
Three materialist wives accompanying their children on a boat trip are handed a letter by courier from a friend of theirs. She is running away with one of their husbands, but they won't know which until they get home.
Review:
This quaintly artificial premise comes across as a cosy Hollywood confection, ostensibly leavened by Mankiewicz's sharply cynical humour in the writing of dialogue. Unfortunately the emotional posturings of the characters strike such a phony note that the cynicism comes over as badly dated. In its day a quality product, and this is arguably what is wrong with it.
Country: US
Technical: bw 102m
Director: Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Cast: Jeanne Crain, Ann Sothern, Linda Darnell, Jeffrey Lynn, Kirk Douglas, Paul Douglas
Synopsis:
Three materialist wives accompanying their children on a boat trip are handed a letter by courier from a friend of theirs. She is running away with one of their husbands, but they won't know which until they get home.
Review:
This quaintly artificial premise comes across as a cosy Hollywood confection, ostensibly leavened by Mankiewicz's sharply cynical humour in the writing of dialogue. Unfortunately the emotional posturings of the characters strike such a phony note that the cynicism comes over as badly dated. In its day a quality product, and this is arguably what is wrong with it.