The Dark Mirror (1946)
Lo Specchio Scuro
A Film by Robert Siodmak
DVD5 | VIDEO_TS | ISO | PAL | 1,33:1 | 4:3 | 720x576 | 01:21:48 | 5% Recovery | 3.9 GB
Languages Available: English, Italian Dolby Digital 2.0 AC3 | Subtitle: Italian
Extra: Menù, Scene Selection, Direct Access to Scenes
Genre: Drama, Crime, Film-Noir | Nominated for 1 Oscar
Lo Specchio Scuro
A Film by Robert Siodmak
DVD5 | VIDEO_TS | ISO | PAL | 1,33:1 | 4:3 | 720x576 | 01:21:48 | 5% Recovery | 3.9 GB
Languages Available: English, Italian Dolby Digital 2.0 AC3 | Subtitle: Italian
Extra: Menù, Scene Selection, Direct Access to Scenes
Genre: Drama, Crime, Film-Noir | Nominated for 1 Oscar
A woman suspected of murdering her doctor boyfriend has an identical twin sister. When both twins have an alibi for the night of the murder, a psychiatrist is called in to assist a detective in solving the case. Through a series of tests, he discovers which twin actually committed the crime and in the course of his investigation he falls in love with the normal twin.
IMDB Rating: 7.0/10
This psychological thriller tells the story of a pair of identical twins, one loving and nice and the other severely disturbed. A doctor is killed and witnesses identify one of the twins as the person seen having a quarrel with the victim shortly before his death. A detective investigating the case cannot determine which twin did the killing since each can provide an alibi for the other. The cops ask for assistance from a doctor who studies twins to help crack the case.
Siodmak’s direction is workman-like with some flair reserved only for the opening scene and the climactic scenes towards the end. The fluid opening scene sees the camera pan from a cityscape at night to a building in the foreground, through a window into a darkened room, up to a smashed mirror, and then down to a man dead on the floor.
The smashed mirror is also a book-end in the film’s closing scene – the dark reflection has to be destroyed. As the drama heightens towards the denouement, the insanity of one of the protagonists is melodramatically rendered in a darkened room at night, where key lighting focuses attention on the crazed eyes of a psychopath.
The picture is carried by an elegant and accomplished performance from Olivier de Havilland in the double role of the twin sisters. As their personalities diverge with the story’s progression, so her performance strengthens. By the climax, she is breathtaking. Thomas Mitchell is entertaining as the cop investigating the murder. Interesting use of a psychologist’s tool-set, Rorschach inkblots, word association, and a polygraph, carry the centre of the film to its dramatic conclusion.
The Dark Mirror is a 1946 American psychological thriller film directed by Robert Siodmak, starring Olivia de Havilland as twins and Lew Ayres as their psychiatrist. The film marks Ayres' return to motion pictures following his conscientious objection to service in World War II. De Havilland had begun to experiment with method acting at the time and insisted that everyone in the cast meet with a psychiatrist. The film anticipates producer/screenwriter Nunnally Johnson's psycho-docu-drama The Three Faces of Eve (1957). Vladimir Pozner's original story on which the film is based was nominated for an Academy Award.
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Language : Italian
ORIGINAL TITLE: The Dark Mirror
GENRE: Drama
DIRECTOR: Robert Siodmak
Screenplay: Nunnally Johnson
ACTORS:
Olivia de Havilland, Lew Ayres, Thomas Mitchell, Richard Long, Charles Evans, Gary Owen, Lester Allen, Lela Bliss, Marta Mitrovich
Cast and Crew
PHOTOGRAPHY: Milton R. Krasner
ASSEMBLY: Ernest Nims
MUSIC: Dimitri Tiomkin
PRODUCTION: Nunnally JOHNSON FOR PICTURES INTERNATIONAL INC.
DISTRIBUTION: UNIVERSAL - PANTMEDIA
COUNTRY: USA 1946
DURATION: 85 Min
FORMAT: B / W 35MM
SUBJECT:
A TALE OF VLADIMIR Pozner
NOTES:
- DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY IS NOT ACCREDITED: EUGEN Schüfftan.
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