Rent Caught (1949)
3.5 of 5 from 73 ratings
1h 28min
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- Synopsis:
- Idealistic Leonora (Barbara Bel Geddes) is looking for the dream life and believes she's found it when introduced to millionaire Smith Ohlrig (Robert Ryan). Quickly married she soon discovers him to be a domineering tyrant. In trying to escape this loveless existence she finds hope in the arms of a caring doctor but her husband doesn't give up his possessions easily.
- Actors:
- James Mason, Robert Ryan, Barbara Bel Geddes, Natalie Schafer, Art Smith, Frank Ferguson, Curt Bois, Ruth Brady, Leon Alton, Frank Baker, Barbara Billingsley, Phil Bloom, Willie Bloom, Ralph Brooks, Wheaton Chambers, Dorothy Christy, Sonia Darrin, Charles Fogel, Kay Garrett, Wilton Graff
- Directors:
- Max Ophüls
- Producers:
- Wolfgang Reinhardt
- Writers:
- Arthur Laurents, Libbie Block
- Studio:
- Second Sight Films Ltd.
- Genres:
- Classics, Drama, Romance
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Reviews (2) of Caught
No Title - Caught review by NO
Typical "B" film.Quite good but not the film noir I was expecting.Ve ry uneventful & a little confusing as it ended abruptly & several points were not explained.For once Mason was
not the villian but the hero.OK but glad I did not pay at the cinema to see it.
1 out of 3 members found this review helpful.
Cinderella Meets Her Psycho Prince - Caught review by griggs
Don’t be fooled by the title — everyone’s trapped in something here. Max Ophuls takes a Cinderella story and flips it on its diamond-encrusted head. What begins as a glamour-soaked fantasy curdles into a velvet-lined prison, with Barbara Bel Geddes playing a woman who buys the dream and ends up paying interest.
Robert Ryan is the husband from hell — polished on the surface, poison underneath. Their scenes play like a dance that keeps slipping out of step, all charm and danger in equal measure.
Lee Garmes shoots it like a noir in evening wear, every shadow dripping with bad intentions. He takes and average melodrama and turns it into an interesting film noir. Ophuls glides through the wreckage of the story with elegance and irony — part romance, part warning. Caught may sparkle like champagne, but it burns like gin on the way down.
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