Thunder on the Hill (1951)iMDB Rating: 6.9
Date Released : 1 September 1951
Genre : Drama
Stars : Claudette Colbert, Ann Blyth, Robert Douglas, Anne Crawford. Convicted murderess Valerie Carns (Ann Blyth) is being transported to Norwich to be executed when a flood strands her and her guards at a convent hospital. Nurse Sister Mary (Claudette Colbert) becomes convinced of her innocence and sets out to find the real killer." />
Movie Quality : BRrip
Format : MKV
Size : 870 MB
Download Trailer SubtitleConvicted murderess Valerie Carns (Ann Blyth) is being transported to Norwich to be executed when a flood strands her and her guards at a convent hospital. Nurse Sister Mary (Claudette Colbert) becomes convinced of her innocence and sets out to find the real killer.
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Review :
No Vertigo
Based on a undistinguished play, in lesser hands this would have been totally forgettable. Director Douglas Sirk endows it all with a sense of style but still does not manage to salvage the pedestrian stagy dialog.
Claudette Colbert is as always, winning in her role as the nun with a feisty spirit she finds difficult to hold in check and Gladys Cooper lends her renowned haughtiness. While there are some well played smaller parts there's much wooden acting too which bogs the film down measurably.
One can't help wondering if Hitchcock ever saw this, as the climax in the bell tower is a forerunner of the famous scene from "Vertigo", but there the similarity ends.
Since Sirk went on to become an important director, this film is of certain interest, but not one to make any particular effort to hunt down.
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Description : Thunder on the Hill (1951) iMDB Rating: 6.9 Date Released : 1 September 1951 Genre : Drama Stars : Claudette Colbert, Ann Blyth, Robert Doug...