Daisy Kenyon is a graphic artist and is having an affair with a married lawyer. Concurrently to that, she is courted by a former boat designer who is a widower and has just returned from the war.
Insipid melodrama, well made but compromised by a plot line about which it is hard to develop a sustained interest. A curious fact which I am apparently alone in acknowledging is that the obvious casting choice for the bad wife and the good mistress would seem to have been the reverse of the chosen one. But then again, Crawford was systematically cast in positive roles early in her career, until one day it apparently dawned on people that she had one of the most unpleasant faces in Hollywood, and she from then on was predominantly cast in villain roles. Another interesting thing is that this is a melodrama in which a character actually says the word "melodrama", which for me is a sign of conflicted personality or self-consciousness. A usual complaint is that the ending was constrained by the moral codes of the time; the real problem, however, is that one does not really care whether it ends one way or the other.
Rating: 44
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