Cause for Alarm! (1951)

Gelezen, quote: "CAUSE FOR ALARM! opens with George Jones (Barry Sullivan), seriously ill in bed with a heart condition, writing to the District Attorney. In his letter Jones claims that his wife and his best friend, who happens also to be his doctor, are conspiring to murder him. But is this really happening, or is George's illness starting to affect his mind? This is the start of a nightmarish day for George's wife Ellen (Loretta Young). While there are one or two things in the script that prompted just a little scepticism on my part, involving Ellen's reactions to certain events that don't quite ring true, I have to admit that the idea behind this movie is a nicely twisted idea that develops into a roller-coaster ride of paranoia and panic for poor Ellen. Barry Sullivan is very good as George, and Loretta Young is surprisingly effective well as Ellen.

1940s movies often tried to combine fairly dark storylines with an admixture of humour, and the results were usually very unsatisfactory. In this film, however, the humour functions rather well in adding a slightly warped touch of the absurd to Ellen's ordeal. There's virtually no trace of the characteristic Film-Noir visual touches. In fact the entire film is bathed in California sunshine and suburban cosiness, but this also tends to add a note of bizarre unreality to events, which intensifies the feeling of nightmare. It does have other typical Film-Noir characteristics – it utilises voice-over narration and flashbacks – and the storyline is dark enough to qualify as a "Noir". It's a very competently done and highly entertaining little B-movie, and although it's a public domain movie the print used in the Dark Crimes boxed set looks very good."

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eerlijk gezegd wist ik niet wat ik hiervan moest verwachten maar tot mijn verassing leverde dit een alleraardigst
onderhoudend verhaal op .
Het gaat zelfs bijna de humoristische kant op nadat hij is overleden en in dit gedeelte is de film op zijn best .