tadpole-596-918256 Review of Payment on Demand

Payment on Demand (1951)

Some ladies are like walking, talking . . .

[6/10 · 26 November 2019]

. . . cash registers, PAYMENT ON DEMAND argues. This sort of cold, calculating consort is sure to drive a man into the arms of the nearest nubile English Major, DEMAND documents. "Joyce" dominates the unkind glare of the center stage spotlight here, as she schemes, connives and plots behind husband "Dave's" back to cut him off from his friends and rural roots. Joyce is a back-stabbing witch, driving Dave's best buddy "Bob" to the brink of suicide. Playing "Mr. Potter" to Bob's Building and Loan business, Joyce does her damnedest to disparage a working stiff she dismisses as an "indigent, sniveling whiner." While she's opening wide for self-confessed married playboy "Anthony," Joyce pays a private snoop to photograph each peck Dave scores with college girl "Eileen." While the older horrid hag harasses Dave for the ultimate PAYMENT ON DEMAND, Joyce serves as a nefarious role model molding her own two daughters into the next generation of merciless mercenary men's money manipulators. Though this flick concludes with Dave supposedly tempted to rejoice, he clearly would be better off with another hole in his head!