Otto Preminger makes a…Douglas Sirk movie? Watching this, I was convinced that this was…finally…a movie that Preminger cared about. The touch on government power, the melodrama, the black and white photography that allows a heavy use of shadows: Finally, after several assignments, Preminger was making what he wanted to make. And then I read that Preminger had no memory of making the film at all decades later. Couldn’t have been that important to him. Still, assignment or passion project, Dai...
Published on November 25, 2025 04:21