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Actress Ida Lupino became an accidental auteur when director Elmer Clifton suffered a heart attack three days into the production of this independent feature, which Lupino cowrote (with later blacklistee Paul Jarrico) and coproduced. It was the beginning of a second career for Lupino, who quietly became the only woman director working in Hollywood in the 1950s. Lupino effortlessly transfers the unsentimental pragmatism of her screen character to this surprisingly distanced account of an unhappy young woman (newcomer Sally Forrest) who runs away from her stifling small-town home. She dreams of joining the surly, sexy jazz pianist (Leo Penn, in a performance that strikingly anticipates the work of his son Sean) but has to settle for the fey attentions of boyish gas-pump jockey Keefe Brasselle, whose idea of fun runs more to toy trains and merry-go-rounds. Lupino uses extremely long takes to highlight the character's sense of isolation and entrapment, but her standoffish camera never allows the film to descend to melodramatic pathos, even when the girl discovers she's pregnant and seeks refuge in a prisonlike home for unwed mothers. Among the film's many astonishing protofeminist moments is a vision of childbirth as blurry expressionist nightmare. --Dave Kehr
| CATEGORY: | Video |
| DIRECTOR: | Ida Lupino, Elmer Clifton |
| THEATRICAL RELEASE DATE: | 01 January, 1985 |
| MANUFACTURER: | Kino Video |
| MPAA RATING: | NR (Not Rated) |
| FEATURES: | Black & White, NTSC |
| TYPE: | Feature Film-drama |
| MEDIA: | VHS Tape |
| # OF MEDIA: | 1 |
| UPC: | 738329014339 |
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A Curious Movie in Film History Sally Forrest stars as Sally, a nineteen year old girl who gets involved with pianist Leo Penn, falls hard for him, even following him to another town to be with him. He's not interested, so she takes up with a boyish war veteran, played earnestly by Keefe Brasselle. When she discovers she is pregnant by Penn, her life is turned upside down again. The storyline is presented straightforwardly, something that surprised me given that the film was made in 1949. Actress Ida Lupino directed most of the film, although she is not credited, and in some ways, it matches the tough character she so often played on screen. The film presents the girl's plight with heart, but doesn't really get sentimental. It's starkly photographed, with elements of silent film incorporated, as long passages of time in the film are viewed without words and using montages instead. The actors are good, the story simple, and apart from an excessively melodramatic conclusion, it's a tight little film worth a look by today's audiences, especially those interested in the development of film. It's a chance to see a film from pretty much the only female director of her time, presenting a story from the point of view of a woman.