Review of Deception (1946) by Christopher B — 04 Jan 2018
A deceptively wonderful little remake in which 3 exceptional actors share the screen. Henried plays a gifted Holocaust survivor - back from the dead. Davis plays a pianist who is nearly good enough to perform publicly, and Rains is the highly successful composer who controls all within his influence - musical or not. The deception of the title pertains to the personal little imaginings each of the characters has, and the lengths one of them goes to either hide or disavow any shadow of impropriety.
Watch for the much better than average fingerings as Davis & Henreid play their respective musical instruments. Would that all actors could approximate actual playing. Rains however couldn't.
From Wikipedia: Davis' solo piano playing was performed by Shura Cherkassky. Henreid's cello playing was dubbed by Eleanor Aller. The music for Hollenius' Cello Concerto was by Erich Wolfgang Korngold, who composed the music for this film. Korngold subsequently expanded this material and published it as his own cello concerto.
This review of Deception (1946) was written by Christopher B on 04 Jan 2018.
Deception has generally received positive reviews.
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