He's playing a variation on the sort of role essayed by Ray Milland in Dial M for Murder - a photographer married to a rich woman that he's cheating on (with Diana Wynter - they have a racy lovemaking scene together which results in him having a bare chested cigarette afterwards). He tries to kill his wife and is semi-successful: the wife winds up with amnesia.
Up until then this isn't bad - quite pacy, and the direction tries to do something different with all these photographic jump cuts. But then it bogs down with a will-she-remember-in-time story - Granger has plenty of opportunities to off his wife but doesn't take them, a rich uncle appears then disappears, the climax is silly, you keep expecting Katy Juarando (as the amnesiac's nurse) to do something interesting but she doesn't. Joseph Campanella has the "John Williams" part of the doctor.
It's a shame because Granger makes a good villain.
Up until then this isn't bad - quite pacy, and the direction tries to do something different with all these photographic jump cuts. But then it bogs down with a will-she-remember-in-time story - Granger has plenty of opportunities to off his wife but doesn't take them, a rich uncle appears then disappears, the climax is silly, you keep expecting Katy Juarando (as the amnesiac's nurse) to do something interesting but she doesn't. Joseph Campanella has the "John Williams" part of the doctor.
It's a shame because Granger makes a good villain.
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