Blind Alley

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nick s @Nick_S Aug 3, 2024 The movie quickly got boxed into one setting, which is never very stimulating. The psychology angle was a bit of a drag. It wasn't a bad effort but not very thrilling or probable. See more acsdoug D @acsdoug Apr 8, 2024 I can't say I've seen every movie from 1939, but Chester Morris must have won the "Worst Overactor" award for that year. Throw in a weak story and some dime store psychiatry and you've wasted 71 minutes of your life. See more May 14, 2020 An early example of film noir before the genre really developed. It's got some of the visual hallmarks but is missing something. The expressionist element of film noir only appears in the dream and flashback sequence. There's a neat cut in the film that shows a candle burning down to indicate the passing of time. The plot is fairly silly; it doesn't make a lot of sense why the escaped gangster would hold up a house party to hide out rather than just wait for his getaway boat out of sight. The psychology element is a bunch of quackery, but luckily I find this kind of thing pretty fun. If you're not the kind of person that reads Freud's The Interpretation of Dreams for leisure like I am, this film may not have aged well. See more Aug 22, 2016 good psychological drama with early elements of film noir from that magical year, 1939 See more Apr 21, 2010 Inte bara en av de första äkta noir-rullarna utan också det första fröet till terror/home invasion-genren. Dessutom en riktigt bra b-film! See more Jul 14, 2009 Hilariously simplistic and naive shoe-horning of then trendy psychoanalysis into the genre. But the dream sequence is surprisingly well done and it is good fun to see Boston Blackie cast against type. Ann Dvorak is fantastic as his tough-talking moll, and their constant use of the word, "see" as punctuation is hysterical. See more Read all reviews

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