Nora Prentiss

General spoilers ahead. More melodrama than noir, Nora Prentiss is even out of place among other, similarly female-centric, noir-tinged dramas of the period, (like the excellent The Damned Don't Cry, which was also directed by Vincent Sherman), largely because, well,…

sakana1

I, too, would fake my own death and leave my life behind just to be with Ann Sheridan.

Sara Clements

The pros: -Has the plot of a Lon Chaney movie gone off the rails -Ann Sheridan is an absolute goddess and makes for an excellent femme fatale with a heart of gold (seriously, she IS the movie) -There are some truly wacky hats on proud display The cons: -Not one of…

Zoë 🐛

With this and The Unfaithful, Ann Sheridan seems to have made a name for herself when it comes to underrated gems in the noir genre. It’s not quite as good as her other outing, but it does things that you wouldn’t expect in a noir film. I think the main thing I appreciate…

Ray Walton

“Thanks, I feel like a new man,” she flirts after emptying her glass in one swallow. Noir-ish melodrama that’s early to the “suburban married life is hell” theme so popular in subversive 1950s films. Right from the start infidelity is framed as a perfectly reasonable…

Jason Drews

Ann Sheridan: *breathes* Me: 😍😭👌👅💦🔥💯

Sara Clements

One would think that a movie named Nora Prentiss would be largely about its title character, but this is more about a doctor in the midst of an extreme mid-life crisis. The central character is actually Robert Talbot (Kent Smith), a cardiologist who is stuck in the same…

Jacob Juenger

Touted as a film noir but leaning much more heavily into melodrama, Nora Prentiss nevertheless satisfies at least one of the requirements with its nontraditional take on a femme fatale throwing the life of a man into tailspin. Dr. Richard Talbot (Kent Smith) is an…

Michael Shawn

My preferred Ann Sheridan/Vincent Sherman noir of 1947. This has to be the best Sheridan performance I’ve seen so far. She’s so lively here, but tragic too, and it’s very easy to see why someone would fake their own death to be with her. I also loved the San Francisco…

Mason 🎬