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The trouble with Harry
Memorable melodrama by noir-master Robert Siodmak starring George Sanders in a marvelous departure from his usual scoundrel roles. Sanders turns in an effective performance as bachelor Harry Quincy, the head designer at a local cloth manufactory, who has a claustrophobic home life with his two unmarried sisters. Playing his sisters is glamorous Geraldine Fitzgerald as Lettie, a domineering hypochondriac, and Moyna MacGill as the petulant Hester. The three share a disturbingly mutual parasitic sort of relationship with the sisters relying on Harry for financial support, and he dependent on them to take care of him--perhaps in more ways than one, since there is palpable chemistry between Harry and Lettie implying an incestuous union. Harry's chance to break away from his stifling siblings comes when he falls for colleage Deborah Brown, played by the slinky Ella Raines, but finds how difficult it is due to his own dependency and his sisters' objections--especially Lettie's increasingly devious and desperate opposition. Things get very interesting in the situation a man who's caught in an untenable circumstance and the measures one will take when feeling trapped, and looming large is how destructive dependency can be when it is allowed to reach pathological extremes and becomes an obstacle to true happiness.