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When a movie has you begging for it to end not even half way through it's pure crap. We've all seen this movie and this characters millions of times, nothing new in it. Don't waste your time.

if their story seems completely bonkers, almost like a feverish work of fiction, you ain't heard nothing yet.

After playing with our expectations, this turns out to be a very different sort of film.

Let me be very fair here, this is not the best movie in my opinion. But, this movie is fun, it has purpose and is very enjoyable to watch.

PSYCHE 59 is a film I really struggled with. It's posited as a blind-woman-in-peril thriller, and even B-movies in that particular genre are pretty good and enjoyable; it says something that they're still making them even now, long after they first gained popularity in the 1950s. Sadly, this movie goes for the pseudo highbrow, psychological, arty approach and as a result it's a vapid mess. It reminded me of some of those dull and dated Pinter adaptations that critics rave about and viewers snore over. This one's a four-hander in which Patricia Neal goes blind for no real reason while her shady husband Curt Jurgens looks after her. Samantha Eggar gets the most memorable role as a saucepot, regularly stripping to her underwear; her sexuality is the most important thing in the movie and the only memorable thing about it. Ian Bannon feels a bit extraneous although strives hard in his early role. The film is slow, talky, and lacking in any kind of suspense or atmosphere; a dud, in other words.

As had so often been the case in the past the best thing about Alexander Singer's "Psyche '59" is Walter Lassally's luminous cinematography. This British drama revolves around Patricia Neal, blinded in an accident but aware that her blindness is psychosomatic and not physical. She's married to Curd Jurgens and has a flightly younger sister, (Samantha Eggar), who comes to stay. There's a fourth character played by Ian Bannen who wanders in and out of their lives.The movie wasn't a success despite its excellent cast and has virtually disappeared. Singer came to the film fresh from his cult classic "A Cold Wind in August" and perhaps more was expected of him than he delivered. It doesn't really work as a thriller; plot-wise it's something of a one-trick pony and outside of its cast of four there is no-one to latch on to and consequently few red herrings. It might have worked as a tale of sisterly rivalry if it wasn't so banal and what almost amounts to a subplot involving Bannen's character almost proves more interesting.It's not really a bad film, (though the ending is gob-smackingly awful), just a very strange one and it's easy to see why it flopped. It's the kind of film that might appeal to the so-called intelligensia looking for meanings that aren't really there. See it by all means; just don't expect too much.

Patricia Neal is a blind married woman, who's a victim of hysterical blindness, a term for blindness that is caused by psychological reasons, instead of anything really wrong with the eyes. It seems she was traumatized by something and refused to see things the way they really were. By way of how she relates to sister Samantha Eggar and husband Curt Jurgens, we enter her world. I read one review of this movie that called it turgid. I was never sure what turgid meant. And. sometimes the dictionary only tells you a synonym type of definition, with not enough of an explanation. But if turgid means to tell a story with exaggeration instead of subtlety. Then, I would agree to an extent, but I think this type of film, the story itself, the mood and setting, and its way of telling the story all go well together, up to a point. Things certainly get worse, before they get better. But I liked Ms. Neal's performance (as usual) and I particularly liked the ending, instead of getting a startling and shocking climax which the film feels like it's heading for. It may not be much on the whole, but I would watch this over and the family dynamic and dysfunction only adds to its appeal as a curiosity piece for the Patricia Neal fans.

***SPOILER*** Slow moving and at times boring psychological drama that has nothing at all to do with the movie "Psycho" which by its title-Psyche 59-it can easily be mistaking for.Alison Crawford, Patricia Neal, has been blind for five years since on that fatefully summer day in 1959-the year that the movie's title indicates-when she feel down a flight of stairs at Grandma's, Beatrix Lehmann, place in the country and ended up losing her sight. Told by her doctors that there's nothing wrong with her eyes in them being perfectly normal it's obviously that Alsion's loss of sight has to do with her mind not wanting to see whatever she sees! That has to do with what Alison saw just before she fell and lost her sight five years ago! What she saw was so shocking that she not only forget what she saw but never wants, psychologically, to see again! See!Married to successful businessman Eric Crawford, Curt Jurgens, Alison has settled into the life of a sightless person not really that interested in whats going on in the world until her kid sister-13 years her junior- Robin, Samanta Eggar, shows up at the Crawford's elegant flat in downtown London for a visit. Even though Alsion can't we could see that Robin and Eric have been lovers for some time in how they interact with each other during their time together at the Crawford flat. In fact Eric's good friend Paul, Ian Bannen, who's really got the hots for Robin and wants to marry her is rebuffed every time he tries to get It on with her in favor of Robin being "lovey Davy" with Eric!Eric for his part is very uncomfortable with Robin being around the house in the unwanted advances she make at him with his wife Alision, Robin's sister, totally unaware of what happening between the two. It's when Eric and Robin together with Paul and the Crawford kids Jean & Susan, Shelley Crowhurst & Sandra Leo, go visit Grandma's country home that the shocking truth in what caused Alisons blindness comes dramatically to the surface! In her almost ending up with a brain concussion when she was hit by a runaway horse, that Robin was riding, in the garden.***SPOILERS*** The big and shocking surprise ending in the film "Psyche 59" was so obvious that it shocked practically no one not even those in the films cast. The fact that anybody could see whats was going on between Eric & Robin with the exception of the blind Alison made the surprise ending a no brainier! By far the biggest and only surprise in the film was how Eric reacted, is wife's revelation about him and Robin, to it that totally psyched me out!