☆ ☆ ½
The
Two Mrs. Carrolls (1947) – P. Godfrey
Barbara Stanwyck is a Woman in Peril in
this by-the-numbers flick cut from the same cloth as Hitchcock’s Suspicion or
Cukor’s Gaslight (that is, we must ask is Humphrey Bogart going to kill his new
second wife?). However, The Two Mrs.
Carrolls isn’t as good as those earlier films and no matter how hard Bogie
glowers or Stanwyck frets, the suspense doesn’t seem to build. The script (or director Peter Godfrey) just doesn’t
seem to bother with the possibility that Bogie isn’t a villain – we know that
from day one. There are a few nice
touches – a precocious child, a blunt maid, bumbling Nigel Bruce (but wait, he
_was_ in Suspicion too, hmmm). However,
nothing rises above routine here and this is why it appears nowhere on the
lists of Bogart or Stanwyck films to see.
So, don’t.
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