Review of Tension (1949) by Sherry L — 27 Jul 2009
Quite OK film noir with Richard Basehart, Audrey Totter and Cyd Charrise.
A humble salers man called Warren with a egocentric, easy going wife gets in trouble when his wife finds herself a new boyfriend. After being beaten up and humiliated by the boyfriend in front of his wife he changes his looks, gets contacts instead of glasses and buys a house close to theirs by the beach.
He meets a really nice and very beautiful young woman named Mary, who lives next door and whom he starts to get feelings for.
One night he has dicided to kill his wife's boyfriend to changes his mind in the last minute.
So he sets a date with Mary, at his place but it isn't Mary who walkes in, it's his wife. She has killed her boyfriend!
And as you can guess it is Warren who is gonna be the prime suspect for the murder, with his motive, fingerprints, and no alibi.
The movie was just too predictable to be really good and it lacked a real good twist, like many film noirs contain. The acting was average, but not worse then any other low budget noir. It's nice to see Cyd Charrise so young, in a non musical. I wouldn't recommend this to anyone who is just getting familiar with the subgenre film noir, but to the film noir veteran who now have seen Double Indemnity and most of Bogart/Bacall's movies. It's watchable, but just about it.
This review of Tension (1949) was written by Sherry L on 27 Jul 2009.
Tension has generally received positive reviews.
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