January 1949: A Letter To Three Wives














*gasp* Nineteen fortynine! I just have 12 more movies to go for this blog project!

This is pretty good. We get presented with three women’s lives, possibly at a pivotal point for any of them, and it’s pretty interesting. But mainly I’m wondering whether Ingmar Bergman saw this movie and then thought, hmm, I can do this a lot better. And then did.

Because this pales in comparison with that movie, of course.

Still: It’s a solid movie. It’s mainly let down by the performances; and mainly the performances of the men. I don’t really buy any of them as real characters.

The disc includes the radio play (that the movie’s based on?), and it’s a lot funnier than the movie. The movie goes for pathos, while the radio play goes for slapstick. It’s fun!

A Letter To Three Wives. Joseph L. Mankiewicz. 1949.

Popular movies in January 1949 according to IMDB:

PosterVotesRatingMovie
65387.9A Letter to Three Wives
15527.7The Passionate Friends
52937.6Criss Cross
32067.5Act of Violence
5046.9The Accused
2456.8The Sun Comes Up
8176.6Shockproof
10196.1A Woman’s Secret

This blog post is part of the Decade series.

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