Alfred Hitchcock directs Ingrid Bergman, Joseph Cotten and Michael Wilding in this gothic melodrama set amongst the Irish well-to-do in colonial Australia which drudges up their dark pasts.

Hitch mucks around with his stalking long takes but forgets to tighten up the drama. Very stodgy. Though Margaret Leighton as a conniving housemaid has the goods. She’s no Mrs Danvers but better than this bloated pap deserves.

4

Perfect Double Bill: Spellbound (1945)

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