Friday, January 10, 2014

Whiplash (1948)


Warner Bros.
Directed by Lewis Seiler
My rating: 2 stars out of 4
IMDb
(Turner Classic Movies)

Dane Clark is a struggling artist and boxer in California. He falls in love with a strange woman who buys one of his paintings, then abruptly leaves. He eventually catches up with her in NYC. She turns out to be married to a boxing promoter who takes Clark under his wings. Dane soon becomes involved in the melodramatics of their unhappy marriage. The boxing finale and pat happy ending are uninspired. You know there are problems with the script when it asks us to root against a guy in a wheelchair.

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