Color Time Travel - A film that must be experienced on the Big Screen

Author: ted-129 from San Francisco
26 April 2008

No one can watch this without remembering Gene Tierney's searing blue eyes, Jeanne Crain's face of innocence, or Cornel Wilde (lightyears from The Naked Prey) here looking like a photo of Pierre & Gilles come to life. It's 110 minutes of color-time-travel basking in the surreally saturated Technicolor palette of the mid 40's.

For those who have been denied the experience of watching the recently restored version with a rapt audience on a big screen as happened April 26, 2008 at San Francisco's Castro Theatre, I can only hope you'll contact a film preservation-minded theater in your area.Though I've watched this film on DVD, nothing prepared me for the impact of the big screen. The closeups alone will take your breath away. Is it melodrama or is it noir?--leave that to Heaven!