Blonde Ice (1948)
3/10
Don't Waste Your Time
9 March 2019
"Blonde Ice" is part of the two disc / six movie DVD collection "Dangerous Dames." Every collection is bound to have a Dud and I'm pretty sure this movie is the one for this collection. Or at least I hope it is as I still have three movies to go.

We start off in San Francisco at the home of Carl Hanneman. He is set to marry Claire Cummings (Leslie Brooks). She writes the social column at the local newspaper and has invited quite a few coworkers to the wedding ... including the thin and rat-faced former lover Al, and her current lover, the sports columnist Les Burns (Robert Paige). Yes. She is marrying Carl for his money and has no intention of giving up her current Beau.

Just moments after they are legally wed Carl catches her in the arms of Les out on the balcony, but she explains it away as an innocent kiss to say goodbye. Ha! Then on their honeymoon in LA Carl finds a love letter Claire has written to Les. She -literally- gives it to him in a handful of other letters she has written! Naturally, Carl isn't putting up with this crap, so he tells her it's over and he flies back to San Francisco.

Claire isn't about to give up on her meal-ticket, so she secretly hires a private plane, flies to SF, murders Carl and makes it look like a suicide, then flies back to LA. She explains his absence on their honeymoon by telling people he had to take a sudden business trip. The police aren't buying this story and investigate Les!

Meanwhile Claire sets her sights on a politician as she climbs the social ladder ... and the lies and the bodies start to pile up.

This is a bad film ... and it's not one of those so-bad-it's-good films. It's just bad.

There are plot holes, characters do things that just don't make sense, the sets are cheap, and none of these people can act.

Don't waste your time like I did.
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