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The Worst Film Ever

Sadly Over-hyped

Captivating movie !

I didn’t really have many expectations going into the movie (good or bad), but I actually really enjoyed it. I really liked the characters and the banter between them.

(POSSIBLE SPOILERS)I happened upon this film last week on the FX Movie channel. I must say I really enjoyed it; typically I flip through my menu looking for classic movies that either have an interesting plot or an actor I'm familiar with. I LOVE LOVE classic movies and like I said I'm a fan. It's a pretty simple premise; really liked the idea of an unstable babysitter losing it during her watchful duties. Although I wanted to slap the nosy couple, I liked the handful of characters. I just wished Nell was a little more CRAZY but that's just me nit picking bc it was a subtle sort of movie. Decent way to wind down ones' day

While the movie was artfully crafted it was not necessarily enthralling. The plot sort of dragged on, only peaking interest with Marilyn's acting. In this film she was slightly deeper than her previous roles, moving beyond simple sex appeal. her role in this film is deeper, darker. She is a babysitter, yet she is involved with a random man. she is deceptive in that she had spent time in a mental institution, she hid this from the bosses. the lighting and cinematography in this film were important in the making of marilyn's character. the shadows kept her hidden in certain points, attaining the certain feel of film noir.

Having never seen a Marilyn Monroe film I was expecting a little more. The actor Richard Widmark reminds me a lot of John Wayne. He plays a very serious character in this movie. I found the plot to be weird. The guy meets a woman he sees in a room across the way. Then he goes across to meet her and she falls in love with him. It just seems a little too made up. Marilyn Monroe plays a very mentally fragile woman. But she does it very well. She's very good at playing this crazy damsel. The Lighting in this movie makes Marilyn Monroe look perfect in every scene. It is also used very well when Marilyn is threatening the girl. Everything is dark which relates to her sinister threats. The camera work is also good. The movie is filled with close up's of all the conversations. One shot in the movie that is very good is when Marilyn rides down the elevator and the door pens but the cage is still there making it look like she's in jail. I didn't particularly like this movie because the plot was just too weird for me.

I really enjoyed this Roy Ward Baker film noir with Richard Widmark and early appearances by Anne Bancroft (singing, even!), Jim Backus and Marilyn Monroe. It's short and sweet, neither overstating its point nor overstaying its welcome. Monroe plays a suicidal fish-out-of-water, who has just moved to New York City from Oregon to overcome a troubled past and start again, falling quickly in love with a pilot who's clearly on the rebound, and the trials and tribulations that follow. Very rewarding both for fans of Monroe and the genre.Just a couple of years back, I picked up this mammoth 17-film DVD collection of Marilyn Monroe's films for a really good price, only to find that the ridiculous way the discs were placed in the digipack basically ruined them, and after watching the movies the best that I could, I reluctantly had to part with it, hoping the set would soon be released at a decent price on the more resilient blu (as you can tell, I'm old-school and low-fi, but I'm hoping to quickly remedy this problem!).As you can tell by any of my prior reviews of Richard Widmark's films, I'm a huge fan of his, and he's easily one of my favourite and most entertaining and watchable actors of the period. As well, Roy Ward Baker is one of the most underrated directors of the period--his entry in The Criterion Collection, 'A Night to Remember', is easily the best telling of the 'Titanic' tragedy. Thus simply on the basis of those three alone, I heartily recommend the film to any adventurous cinephiles of this era.