Thursday, January 14, 2010

The Forbidden Street (1949)

Directed by Jean Negulesco
My rating: 3 stars out of 4
IMDb
(Fox Movie Channel)

Dana Andrews has a dual role: first as an alcoholic artist who hustles his way into a marriage, then as a gentler version of the same person who assumes the first's identity after his death. It's set mostly in a slum alley of London called Brittania Mews. The second half is the best, as the new Andrews and O'Hara start a successful puppet theatre. Dame Sybil Thorndike is superb as the "Sow", an ugly blackmailer.

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