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HwCath
17May12
Wow, I didn't enjoy most of this movie but the last minutes made up for it. Douglas Sirk's subversion is a lot more subtle and tragic than his other movies because at least the main character had a chance! Its the children in this that cause the fall. Always look out for the children.
trolley freak
20Feb12
A dozen years after appearing together in the film noir classic Double Indemnity its stars Stanwyck and MacMurray were reunited for a quite different project, a razor-sharp study of male mid-life crisis brilliantly directed by Sirk. A neglected toy manufacturer is reunited with a former employee and as their friendship develops it threatens to throw into disarray the lives of all concerned. Another great Sirk work...
catch_33
28May11
A tad more subdued than the other Sirk's I've recently seen, but only barely. A great tale of the self-trappings of a domesticated man and his mid-life crisis. A tad twist of fate is that his dissatisfaction springs from his children's behaviour over his suspected affair. Sirk's framing and subtext is ripe and picking for analysis, but beyond that it is just a striking study of an American family.
Yuki Aditya
9Jun10
sappy as hell, but the Stanwyck's monologue about father, made me cry like a little girl
