Enjoyable version of the novel, with Ida Lupino in excellent form in Gene Tierney’s old role as the selfish-but-for-sympathetic-reasons Isabelle. Mark Stevens, a somewhat undistinguished second-tier name during the late 40s, doesn’t make much of the part of Larry – it is a really difficult part to play, someone who’s genuinely good, but Tyrone Power managed to pull it off (he was so well cast, a good looking, nice guy who was going through something of a crisis after the war); Stevens doesn’t quite get there. I don’t know who replaced Anne Baxter and Clifton Webb in this version but they do very good jobs (sometimes the weakness of these Lux adaptations was not having decent support cast but it’s not the case here).
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