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| Title: SHED NO TEARS Year: 1948 Rating: ***1/2 |
Imagine Virginia Mayo with a crookedly wicked smile that visciously smooths into an entitled-pouting menace, and you have 1940's b-movie starlet June Vincent in what's yet another take on DOUBLE INDEMNITY: only this time the wife's bland older husband doesn't get killed by a handsome lover...
The poor dolt actually kills himself... or rather, they both do... as in, faking his murder in a rushed opening shot of a burning hotel room and, within minutes, as Vincent's driving with Wallace Ford, we learned everything through even more rushed expository dialogue...
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| June Vincent in SHED NO TEARS |
As SHED NO TEARS plays more like an stagey melodramatic programmer (or later, something that would play on television) as the edgy noir aspect's mostly built into the twisty plot-line...
Also involving a flamboyantly scheming insurance investigator, a standard handsome lover and the supposedly deceased husband's son (the victim in ROPE): who all pale to Vincent's femme-fatale, deserving a much darker canvas more suited to her naturally wicked, tour-de-force role.
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| June Vincent in SHED NO TEARS |
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| June Vincent in SHED NO TEARS |
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| June Vincent in SHED NO TEARS |
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| June Vincent in SHED NO TEARS |
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| June Vincent in SHED NO TEARS |
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| June Vincent in SHED NO TEARS |
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| June Vincent in SHED NO TEARS |
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| June Vincent in SHED NO TEARS |
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June Vincent in SHED NO TEARS with Mark Roberts
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June Vincent in SHED NO TEARS with Wallace Ford
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| June Vincent in SHED NO TEARS |
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| Elena Verdugo in SHED NO TEARS |
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| June Vincent in SHED NO TEARS |
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| June Vincent in SHED NO TEARS |
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June Vincent in SHED NO TEARS with Dick Hogan
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