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The Second Woman

1951, Movie, NR, 91 mins

The Second Woman: Review

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Jeff Cohalan (Young) is a bright young architect whose mental state is precarious, due to the death of his fiancee in a car accident in which he was the driver. While visiting his aunt (Bates), he tries to take his own life, and his new girl friend, Ellen Foster (Drake), reveals that Jeff had been working for real estate developer Ben Sheppard (O'Neill) and was engaged to his daughter, Vivian (Ballard), when the accident occurred. Ever since then Jeff has had dizzy spells and lapses of memory, and has begun to wonder about his sanity due to several inexplicable incidents, including the fire that devastated the beautiful home he built for Vivian. A psychiatrist friend (Carnovsky) thinks Young may have inadvertently caused the fire as a consequence of the guilt he is experiencing over Ballard's death. Ellen, however, continues with her own investigation and learns some surprising information about Vivian, a "friend" of hers, and her father, all of which lead to the surprising conclusion. Young is a very quiet psychotic, underplaying almost to the point of somnambulism. This actually works in the context of the film, as it is highly suspenseful, and any emoting on Young's part would have destroyed the moody believability slowly built by Robert Smith's screenplay and James V. Kern's direction. leave a comment
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