The Dark Past

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08/07/2024 People seem to dislike this movie, but I found this really entertaining. I guess I just have a soft spot for psychological thrillers. The cinematography was also fantastic for 1948. Al Walker was written well, and Holden’s performance made the character even better. I’d love to see a remake of this film, because maybe it could win over more people with the benefit of one. 4/5 stars. See more deke p 02/07/2020 Did not age well. 1948. Cobb as constantly pipe-smoking psychologist cures his captor William Holden. Everyone wore suits and ties. Nonsense psychological miracle, pretentious and melodramatic. Never heard of until saw on broadcast tv The Movie Channel 13.3, on 2.6.20 See more 02/04/2013 Introductory Psychology Gussied Up as a Crime Film--The Fifty-Minute Cure!! See more 01/07/2009 Holden did well, but I thought his character was not written as well as it could have been. Cobb's character had much more depth, but the extra story about the boy he may be able to save in the future was fairly unnecessary, most of his character building came in the holdup story anyway. It's fairly short, so if you have a little over an hour to kill, it'd be worth a look. See more 04/18/2008 Perhaps a little excessively/obviously freudian. But definitely worth watching for the interplay between Cobb and Holden. See more 03/30/2008 originally, i thought this was the same film as he ran all night and the desperate hours (both great noir films), but this is slightly different! first, william holden and lee cobb are great and the screenplay holds up with some really nice tension and suspense. though i would have rather seen veronica lake int he nina foch as originally intended See more Read all reviews

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