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Caught (1949) -- M. Ophuls
I was expecting a film
noir (like Ophuls' later The Reckless Moment) but instead this definitely tilts
into melodrama territory of the soapy Sirkian kind, laced with social
commentary. Barbara Bel Geddes plays the poor girl who goes to charm school to
find a way to marry rich and she does…to her detriment beause she marries
Robert Ryan (playing a veiled version of Howard Hughes) who is seriously messed
up. Later in the film, she escapes into
the arms of James Mason (or does she?).
Ophuls' gliding camera is here and he has a way of making the material
sing.
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