Is there going to be a movie where I say, “This was made because Otto Preminger wanted to make it?” Perhaps that was Laura, but being a studio man willing to take any assignment just makes it harder to find where Preminger begins and the demands of studio filmmaking end. Was it really his great desire to make the cinematic, musical version of Albert Idell’s novel? I kind of doubt it. The adaptation seems slapdash, especially the inclusion of musical elements, unable to mesh its setting that ...