02 October 2009

Liverwurst

Spellbound

(1945)
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I know: you can't judge a 64-year-old film by today's standards. So let's just judge it by the standards of, say, 60 years ago and say that its Freudianism is risible, its attitudes toward female professionals grotesque, and its romantic plot junior-high silly. What were they thinking?

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