"...a first-class example of the inconsequential put to highly diverting use." - The New York Times
Directed by Mitchell Leisen.
The full range of Mitchell Leisen’s visual power is on display here from the mud-and-muck realism of the underwater tunnel where Fred MacMurray’s sand hog toils to the dizzyingly surreal dream sequence that animate the sexual frustrations of Claudette Colbert’s photojournalist after she meets MacMurray on assignment. Class and gender roles take a licking in Charles Binyon’s breezy script while Leisen again proves his facility for putting desire on screen.
Paramount Pictures, Inc. Producer: B.G. DeSlyva. Screenwriter: Claude Binyon. Cinematographer: Charles Lang. Editor: Alma Macrorie. Cast: Claudette Colbert, Fred MacMurray, Ilka Chase, Richard Haydn, Paul McGrath.
35mm, b/w, 94 min.
