SUDDEN FEAR
(R.K.0.-Radio) SHALL probably be thought very uncritical when I say that I rather enjoyed much of the new Joan Crawford vehicle. It’s one of those all-this-and-the-kitchen-sink-too ‘sort of melodrama that could have been cut well below_ its 10,000.0dd feet by a less extravagant use of Miss Crawford’s anguished face alone or by taking a great chunk out of the middle-of the film, I mean-where, just when it should be fairly palpitating, it sags badly. There’s a quite fantastic ending, too, with no one rushing out to save the heroine when the villain’s pursuit of her is making enough din to wake the whole of ’Frisco. But once one starts looking for flaws. . . In spite of them all, then, some scenes gre very well done; there’s quite a deal of tension, there’s Jack Palance as an _ ugly frightening villain, and Gloria Grahame as his evil accomplice, and one might even have said some kind things about Miss Crawford herself if only her director (David Miller) had ‘used some restraint.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 31, Issue 792, 24 September 1954, Page 17
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170SUDDEN FEAR New Zealand Listener, Volume 31, Issue 792, 24 September 1954, Page 17
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