Cause for Alar [DVD]

Poorly written 1951 Black & White B-movie, 14 May 2009

A black and white ‘thriller’ from the early fifties.

The best thing about it for me was the setting, twee little house, with the obedient little housewife tending to her ill husband. The hedges immaculately trimmed, the floors routinely vacuumed, boxes of groceries arriving so she could give cookies to the little boy pretending to be a cowboy. The 40s/50s cars, the period outfits. Absurd but charming to my eyes.

The worst thing was the untidy narrative and implausible plot. I didn’t believe a word of it and the acting wasn’t much better. At 74 minutes I found this film monotonous and I nearly gave up.

Also the DVD wouldn’t play properly on my computer which kept going to sleep. This may be that the DVD wasn’t properly configured or that my Mac was as bored as I was.

I can’t imagine this film was transferred to DVD for aesthetic reasons.

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