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L A Letter to Three Wives (1949)
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A Letter to Three Wives (1949)

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Country: US
Technical: bw 102m
Director: Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Cast: Jeanne Crain, Ann Sothern, Linda Darnell, Jeffrey Lynn, Kirk Douglas, Paul Douglas

Synopsis:

Three materialist wives accompanying their children on a boat trip are handed a letter by courier from a friend of theirs. She is running away with one of their husbands, but they won't know which until they get home.

Review:

This quaintly artificial premise comes across as a cosy Hollywood confection, ostensibly leavened by Mankiewicz's sharply cynical humour in the writing of dialogue. Unfortunately the emotional posturings of the characters strike such a phony note that the cynicism comes over as badly dated. In its day a quality product, and this is arguably what is wrong with it.

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Country: US
Technical: bw 102m
Director: Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Cast: Jeanne Crain, Ann Sothern, Linda Darnell, Jeffrey Lynn, Kirk Douglas, Paul Douglas

Synopsis:

Three materialist wives accompanying their children on a boat trip are handed a letter by courier from a friend of theirs. She is running away with one of their husbands, but they won't know which until they get home.

Review:

This quaintly artificial premise comes across as a cosy Hollywood confection, ostensibly leavened by Mankiewicz's sharply cynical humour in the writing of dialogue. Unfortunately the emotional posturings of the characters strike such a phony note that the cynicism comes over as badly dated. In its day a quality product, and this is arguably what is wrong with it.


Country: US
Technical: bw 102m
Director: Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Cast: Jeanne Crain, Ann Sothern, Linda Darnell, Jeffrey Lynn, Kirk Douglas, Paul Douglas

Synopsis:

Three materialist wives accompanying their children on a boat trip are handed a letter by courier from a friend of theirs. She is running away with one of their husbands, but they won't know which until they get home.

Review:

This quaintly artificial premise comes across as a cosy Hollywood confection, ostensibly leavened by Mankiewicz's sharply cynical humour in the writing of dialogue. Unfortunately the emotional posturings of the characters strike such a phony note that the cynicism comes over as badly dated. In its day a quality product, and this is arguably what is wrong with it.

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