Review of Cause for Alarm! (1951) by Beth Ann G — 28 Dec 2008
This film mixes camp and noir, so noir purists may not like it, but I enjoyed it. Loretta Young's character Ellen Jones does everything wrong. She dotes over her sleazy husband even when he turns maliciously unstable.
She changes from doormat to victim when he accuses her and his doctor best friend (and her former suitor) of attempted murder. Jones spends the majority of the film vainly attempting to retrieve what becomes an increasingly incriminating accustation.
Young starts out the picture of the perfect housewife only to descend into sweaty, hysterical desperation by film's end.
This review of Cause for Alarm! (1951) was written by Beth Ann G on 28 Dec 2008.
Cause for Alarm! has generally received mixed reviews.
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