Getting back into film watching after a weeks holiday, thought I would ease my way back in and avoid the extremes of sex and violence with a viewing of this 1948 b/w tale starring Susan Peters. Well, it started gently enough, although the Cornish sea is crashing outside the window, but this soon turns edgy, then nasty, until what we have before us, thanks to an amazing wheelchair bound performance from Peters is the very personification of evil. A truly terrible tale of family turmoil unfolds and if there are scenes where the melodrama threatens to take over, there is always Peters, on hand, and wringing her hands, she of the sign of the ram.
Review of The Sign of the Ram
