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Message from Dean - May 8th 2007
I am currently testing out a new version of the APF Bridge Component - If you notice any errors within this demo store please drop me a line.
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9786302168433
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, NTSC
ISBN: 6302168430
Label: Turner Home Entertainment
Languages: EnglishOriginal LanguageAnalog
Manufacturer: Turner Home Entertainment
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Turner Home Entertainment
Release Date: October 09, 1991
Running Time: 93 minutes
Studio: Turner Home Entertainment
Theatrical Release Date: June 17, 1991
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This Turner Pictures TVM adapted by Gavin Lambert from the novella by Rachel Ingalls and directed by Mark Cullingham, has a Mills and Boon romance mentality crossed with the level of mystery you find on Murder, She Wrote. There is nothing real at stake when Amanda Pays becomes involved with Corbin Bernsen, who then involves her with his rich cousin John Glover, the superficiality emphasised by an idiot score by Michael Minard. The narrative has Hitchockian aspirations, with lifts from Rebecca and Suspicion, plus the use of San Francisco as in Vertigo, but Cullingham is to Hitchcock what Pays is to a struggling actress. One senses the attempt to present Pays in the ingenue vein of Audrey Hepburn, but the only thing impressive about this bug-eyed English bunny who uses a growl when being serious to break up her prim intonation, is her The Shout-like ability to scream over ocean waves, and even Cullingham's payoff for this skill is weak. When we discover Pays as a maid in a play called Death ... Read More
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