7/10
I rather like Mrs. Harding
24 November 2008
Warning: Spoilers
LOVE FROM A STRANGER sounds like a TV courtroom melodrama, yet it evokes the charm and spontaneity of the British between—the—wars cinema sometimes nostalgically evoked by Hitchcock—a sort of freedom and originality and unpretentiousness. Mrs. Harding—what a delicious woman and actress, what a funny blonde! …And the Hoffmanesque cellar scenes, brightly scored! The score is by Britten; the precarious technique affects the sound's quality, the dialogs are rather badly taken, sometimes hard to understand.

Such movies are amusing almanacs of funny bits and small inventiveness.

Rathbone was the villainous, threatening version of Flynn. A better actor, one might say.

The hypocrisy of men was illustrated in cinema by Grant, Cotten, Mitchum, with roles in movies about women being manipulated and used,of trust betrayed, and Cave sang about the victims of others' malice.

Mrs. Harding produces instantly a very good impression, as a most fine person.
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