Saturday, September 05, 2020

Movie review - "Turn the Key Softly" (1954) ***

 Entirely decent melodrama about three women who leave prison and who we follow over the next 12 hours. All are tempted to return to crime - prostitute Joan Collins because her new fiancee, who has waited for her, is so dull; Yvonne Mitchell, who took the fall for crim boyfriend Terence Morgan; and Kathleen Harrison because she just likes stealing.

It's a lot of fun - three good actors in the lead, a solid support cast, some location filming, it cuts around from storyline to storyline, it's quite adult (Collins talking to her old colleagues, Mitchell and Morgan have sex).

I enjoyed this. I'm developing an appreciation for 50s Collins.

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