Shockproof (Sirk, 1949): Regent Street Cinema, 1pm
Time Out review:
Written by none other than the great Sam Fuller, this superior blend of
love-on-the-run thriller and social comment, filtered through film noir, follows the fraught, doomed relationship between a parole officer and
the female ex-con with whom he falls in love. The depiction of the ways
in which society refuses to forgive criminals for their past
misdemeanours is none too sophisticated, but Fuller's punchy,
tabloid-like script, Douglas Sirk's stylishly economical direction, and the
unsentimental characterisations lend it power. A pity about the
contrived ending, imposed on Sirk by Columbia, but the film still looked good enough for Richard Hamilton to base a series of paintings on its shots of Patricia Knight.
Here (and above) is the opening to the movie.
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