These films are fun. Silly but fun. They tried to make them better but didn't understand why they worked and killed the fun.
This has unrealistic sets, which kept the budget down and made the story more believable because it takes place in never never land.
Stewart Granger is excellent as is Robert Helpmann; Dennis Price imitates James Mason, and isn't as good , but this is one of his better works. Jean Kent is fine - great character but she is second tier.
Anne Crawford is a debit - I'm sorry she died young in real life, but she is. Her character doesn't help - bland blonde English lady.
We didn't need all those flashbacks at the star, but it moves at a decent clip - English films forgot how to move. It gets Gainsborough requirements - a good guy and a bad guy, both into sex; a good girl and a bad girl; the bad girl isn't really bad but is foreign and sex mad so dies; the good girl suffers but gets the guy. Why was that so hard for Sydney Box to understand?
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