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directed by Pat Jackson
USA 1950
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Unheralded little thriller with a number of nice touches. Little Gigi Perreau (Susan) has the pivotal role and comes through beautifully. If we don't identify with her or her emotional trauma, the movie doesn't work. Fortunately, we do. [...] Looks like this was another B-movie from MGM's Dore Schary period when he was refashioning the studio's star-studded image. The under-rated Scott and Sothern are certainly playing against type, he as a kind-hearted father, she as a cold-hearted murderess. Oddly, the screenplay shares focus among these four players instead of centralizing one or two as is usually the case. In terms of actual screen time, it's probably Nancy Davis's movie, though she was likely too unknown to get star billing. Then too, whatever happened to Kristine Miller as Scott's faithless wife. She certainly looks the part and acts it wickedly. [...]
Anyway, this all adds up
to a very effective little thriller, proving that even
though late to the party, MGM could B- movie with the
best of them. Excerpt of review from Doug Doepke for imdb.com located HERE |
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Theatrical Release: 19 May 1950 (USA)
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DVD Review: Warner Home Video (Warner Archive Collection) - Region 0 - NTSC
Big thanks to Gregory Meshman for the Review!
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| Runtime | 1:23:33 | |
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Shadow
on the Wall, not to be confused with Columbia's
The Shadow on the Window, represents MGM's entry
in child in peril sub-genre of film noir cinema - RKO's
The Window, Fox's
A Blueprint for Murder or British noirs
The Fallen Idol,
Bang! You're Dead and
The Weapon. Ann Sothern, after ten comedic
Maisie
pictures and being a recipient of
A Letter to Three Wives, takes a center stage in
this criminal drama as Dell Faring. In a fit of rage,
she murders her sister Celia (Kristine Miller,
Too Late for Tears) and sees Celia's husband,
David (Zachary Scott) put on the death row for the
murder. Only David's 6-year old daughter, Susan (very
good Gigi Perreau) can identify the true murderer in the
shadow on the wall she saw that night and Dell will stop
at nothing for truth to come out. Ann Sothern is miscast
in the dark role, although she would be back in noir
territory in Fritz Lang's
Blue Gardenia. Zachary Scott excelled in noir
playing a vicious criminal (The
Mask of Dimitrios), a sleasebag (Mildred
Pierce), a money-hungry shark (Ruthless),
a homme fatale (Danger Signal), a sadistic
cripple (Whiplash),
etc. but was as good in likable roles (The
Southerner,
The Unfaithful). In Shadow on the Wall,
he is one of those likeable protagonists who gets short
end of the stick in life, but his role becomes smaller
after the murder. Most of the sleuthing to clear David's
name is done by a children |
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