Midnight Lace

It's not horrible, but I feel Doris Day was miscast since I prefer upbeat smiling Doris Day. The reveal is so very predictable. Gaslight did it a lot better. Fav scene: the poster makes a big deal of Doris Day holding the sides of her dead in terror, but when it finally happens it all just seems so tame.

Hitchcockian Thriller set in (not yet Swinging) London. Characters are very old fashioned and the film could have easily been made in the 50’s. There’s very little suspense; it’s mainly about our lead trying to convince others that she is not just imagining things. It’s pretty easy to guess where it’s heading if you've seen a couple of similar films. I might have liked it a bit more had I seen it years ago, but at this point it’s a clear disappointment.

Relatively strong thriller, though too repetitive and Day's character is too passive for it to really be a great one. At worst a bit plodding but at best it feels like a lesser Hitchcock, which is still pretty damn good. It does a decent job of making you guess which of two directions it's going, though anyone decently versed in thrillers should sniff it out. The solution requires some plot holes to come about. Day is good at what she's asked to do, but sadly that's mostly cry and look helpless.