I am a big fan of Rita Hayworth but this film on the whole wasn't very satisfying for me. Ms. Hayworth of course is very glamorous and her musical numbers will get even the most lackadaisical viewer's attention. I also like Jose Ferrer who was especially brilliant in The Caine Mutiny. Now to the Aldo Ray character. I don't know if the character was written that way or not but Aldo's O'Hara comes across as a dullard. I know he played mentally deficient characters in films with Judy Holliday (The Marrying Kind) and Hepburn & Tracy (Pat & Mike) but here his simpleness detracts from the morality questions that the film tries to address with moderate levels of success. Can someone e-mail an explanation of the ending to me. I'm not sure I get it. With Davidson's death, Sadie is free to rendez-vous with O'Hara but if so doesn't that undo her repentance to go back and confront the sins of her past or is the film saying that since Davidson was a hypocrite so he had no moral authority to preach to Sadie to do so?
Review of Miss Sadie Thompson
