NIGHTMARE
(Universal)
[F you don’t find a theatre seat a comfortable place for an evening’s snooze, take along a couple of cushions when. you go to see Night-
mare, for it won’t keep you awake long, even if you go interested, as I was, to see how Diana. Barrymore makes out in her new film. The corpse is there, the dagger is there (in the corpse), the dark night and the shadows are there all right — but no nightmare that I could detect. Plenty of Brian Donlevy (too much, in fact, if he’s going to make a habit of beizies romantic in his ‘shirtsleeves), plenty of Diana Barrymore acting with full dramatic school honours and much too much make-up on her upper lip, which is probably quite a pretty shape if left to its own inclinations, and plenty of action and change of scene from London to bonny Scotland. But divil a nightmare and divil a thrill. And I’m sadly disappointed in the young Barrymore. I found Between Us Girls so refreshing and so well done I can hardly believe that this is Miss Barrymore's third attempt --- it strikes me rather as a first attempt which looked so much like a sure-fire moneyloser that Universal decided to ‘keep Nightmare in cold storage until Between Us Girls had rosied up the spectacles of the exhibitors. But I may be wrong. I don’t know why it’s called Nightmare. Forty Winks would have been more apt,
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 9, Issue 217, 20 August 1943, Page 21
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243NIGHTMARE New Zealand Listener, Volume 9, Issue 217, 20 August 1943, Page 21
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