Sleep, My Love (1948)

Calificación de los usuarios:

6.8/10   

Director:

Douglas Sirk

Escritores:

St. Clair McKelway (screenplay)
Leo Rosten (novel)

Fecha de Lanzamiento:

18 febrero 1948 (USA)

Género:

Drama | Cine Negro | Misterio

Plot:

Claudette Colbert wakes up in the middle of the night on board a train, but she can't remember how she got there. Danger and suspense ensue.

Plot Keywords:

Based On Novel

Comentarios de los usuarios:

Nice try but it fails to sizzle...one of Colbert's weaker films...

Reparto

Claudette Colbert	...	Alison Courtland
Robert Cummings	...	Bruce Elcott
Don Ameche	...	Richard W. Courtland
Rita Johnson	...	Barby
George Coulouris	...	Charles Vernay
Queenie Smith	...	Mrs. Grace Vernay
Ralph Morgan	...	Dr. Rhinehart
Keye Luke	...	Jimmie Lin
Fred Nurney	...	Haskins
Raymond Burr	...	Detective Sgt. Strake
Marya Marco	...	Jeannie Lin (as Maria San Marco)
Lillian Bronson	...	Helen, the Maid
Hazel Brooks	...	Daphne

También conocida como:

Paco tenebroso (Mexico) (cable TV title) [es]
Pacto tenebroso (Spain) [es]

Duración:

97 min

País:

USA

Idioma:

Inglés

Color:

Negro y Blanco

Relación de Aspecto:

1.37 : 1

Sonido:

Mono (Western Electric Recording)

Clasificación:

USA:Approved (certificate #12726) | Australia:PG | Finland:K-16 | UK:PG

Compañía:

Triangle Production

Conexiones de Película:

Referenced in Has Anybody Here Seen Canada? A History of Canadian Movies 1939-1953 (1979) (TV)

Nice try but it fails to sizzle...one of Colbert's weaker films...

We're into familiar territory again with this would-be sleeper about a woman being drugged by her husband (DON AMECHE) for her inheritance and trying all manner of tricks to get her to think she's going insane.

It all has a familiar ring--although this time, under Douglas Sirk's direction, it's all much too contrived and not too convincing in its execution.

CLAUDETTE COLBERT is the poor victimized wife (but she's no Ingrid Bergman) and the cast-against-type DON AMECHE is much too affable to be chilling as the husband, unlike CHARLES BOYER in "Gaslight". Interestingly, ROBERT CUMMINGS is playing the same sort of role he essayed years later in "Dial M For Murder" whereby he helped Grace Kelly who was caught up in a sinister plot by her husband. Whatever, he's still pretty bland.

In fact, that's the trouble with the whole film. It's bland despite the makings of a plot that should be mystifying and terrifying. Maybe a director other than Sirk could have done things with the bare bones of the story that would have turned it into the kind of chiller it's striving to be.

Summing up: Not really worth your time.