Thursday, January 03, 2008

Sleep, My Love (1948)

Synopsis: A woman keeps finding herself in strange situations, appearing in unexpected places without recollection of how she got there, and seeing people nobody else saw. Her husband's strangely cold behavior and association with some shady characters place him as a suspect of staging a conspiracy of some kind. Fortunately, she meets a young man who will try to solve this mystery.

Appraisal: The plot follows strictly routine patterns, and is absurd at its core -- unless you believe that hypnosis can make people who are asleep -- and under the effect of heavy drugs -- rise and do all sorts of things as commanded. The direction -- as related to acting and the general technical factors that give a movie its superficial polishing -- is of a superior kind, but there is only so much one can do with such a material.

Rating: 31

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