A vanity production of sorts, this anthology film showcases Mr. and Mrs. Mason as the producers, writers, and lead players in three separate episodes of love and violence.
"Portrait of a Murderer" presents Pamela Mason as a disillusioned young artist who absentmindedly sketches the face of Mason, the man next door who, unbeknownst to her, has recently murdered her girlfriend and returned to the scene of the crime. They fall in love--with predictably tragic results.
"Duel at Dawn" finds Mason as an Austrian officer in the 1880s who steals Pamela Mason from a rival (Forbes) who then challenges Mason to a duel. In "The Midas Touch" Mason is a hard-working, successful man who has amassed a small fortune in New York but is dissatisfied with his life and abandons
his wealth and moves to England to start over. There he takes a job as a valet and falls in love with Pamela Mason, a cockney servant girl who desires a better life. He comes up with an appropriately farfetched solution for their future happiness.
Mason himself condemned this nepotistic mess; he was quoted as saying: "I had hoped that this curiosity would be lost without a trace." leave a comment
