Good grief I was not ready for "Storm Warning" to pack the punch it did. This is strong stuff for a film from the 1950s.
Ginger Rogers visits a small town to spend time with her sister and her new husband, only to find that the town is run by a certain hooded mob and her new brother-in-law is one of its members. She witnesses the mob murdering a man, and the rest of the movie consists almost entirely of her being terrorized in one way or another to prevent her from telling what she knows to the authorities. The whole movie has a very dark and violent vibe, appropriate for a story about this particular group, and it includes things like sexual assault, spousal abuse, and the accidental killing of a pregnant woman by her own husband. The film ends on a real downer, Rogers finding the courage to stand up to the mob, but only after it's much too late.
Doris Day plays her sister, Ronald Reagan plays the town police officer, and the smoldering Steve Cochran plays Rogers' cowardly bully of an in-law.
Grade: A.
Ginger Rogers visits a small town to spend time with her sister and her new husband, only to find that the town is run by a certain hooded mob and her new brother-in-law is one of its members. She witnesses the mob murdering a man, and the rest of the movie consists almost entirely of her being terrorized in one way or another to prevent her from telling what she knows to the authorities. The whole movie has a very dark and violent vibe, appropriate for a story about this particular group, and it includes things like sexual assault, spousal abuse, and the accidental killing of a pregnant woman by her own husband. The film ends on a real downer, Rogers finding the courage to stand up to the mob, but only after it's much too late.
Doris Day plays her sister, Ronald Reagan plays the town police officer, and the smoldering Steve Cochran plays Rogers' cowardly bully of an in-law.
Grade: A.