MGM
Directed by Richard Brooks
My rating: 2 stars out of 4
IMDb
(Turner Classic Movies)
Art thief Stewart Granger smuggles a painting from Italy to Tunisia, where he tries to unload it to a collector. George Sanders is a slimy middle man trying to get a piece of the deal. Granger meets young artist Pier Angeli and uses her to to make a copy of the painting, which he tries to pass off as the real thing. He even goes as far as marrying the naive Angeli. Their relationship is the heart of the film, and it doesn't work, mainly because of the large difference in their ages. Granger's transformation from heel to repentant thief is insincere, and the sight of the couple walking off hand in hand to end the movie feels completely unrealistic.
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