Directed by Robert Aldrich
My rating: 1.5 stars out of 4
IMDb
(Turner Classic Movies)
Kim Novak plays Elsa Campbell who becomes movie star Elsa Brinkmann to play movie star Lylah Clare in a movie within the movie. When she is herself, whoever that is, she speaks normally, but when channeling the dead movie star Lylah she speaks in a deep voice and acts possessed. Peter Finch is her lover/director, also the lover/director of Lylah when she was alive. I think Aldrich is going for some Hitchcock cleverness put cannot pull it off. The last half hour or so is laughably bad, and just like the movie they are making this movie cannot find an ending, so instead they tack on a dog food commercial which is some kind of allegory about Hollywood. Kim Novak looks great throughout.
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