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Leave Her's heroine is jealous Ellen (Gene Tierney), whose somewhat too-intense love for her husband (Cornel Wilde) leads her to drown his brother, throw herself downstairs, and eventually poison her own coffee. The unhappy story moves through breathtakingly stylish country interiors which make no particular point except to show that the characters have plenty of chintz-upholstered leisure for getting into mischief...
...amount of strenuous plot trouble-or even a long fall down a flight of steps-seems to jar Gene Tierney's smooth deadpan. Waking or sleeping, in ecstasy or anger, joy or sorrow, her pretty, composed features seem to be asking the single, gamin-&-spinach question...
...Sevastopol, grew up (after the revolution) in Denmark, Switzerland, Italy. At 21 he came to the U.S. to coach tennis at the University of Georgia, went back to get his brother, Oleg, a nubile young man. Oleg's marriages, to date: with Million-heiress Merry Fahrney, Cinemactress Gene Tierney. Igor covered sports and read proof for an Italian paper in New York, wrote obituaries and police news for a Washington paper, finally talked himself into a $25-a-week job writing "a spicy little column like I had once done back in Italy." One spicy little column...
Hollywood's Major Joppolo is a likable young man named John Hodiak whose earnest performance suffers mainly from its inevitable comparison with the expert underplaying of Actor March. The girl Tina (Gene Tierney), whose role is no clearer nor any more necessary in the picture than it is in the play, is a remarkably clean-looking girl who has apparently cornered all of war-ravaged Italy's remaining soap, and who tries to give an illusion of foreignness by talking very slowly...
This sort of storytelling, related to balladry but a lot less long-winded, is not new to the screen. But it has been neglected so long that it is as good as new. Combined with evocative sets and appropriate performance (by Lawrence Tierney, Edmund Lowe, Anne Jeffreys and others), and admirably terse, it provides a tinnily entertaining, cinematically energetic antidote to the two-hour doses of pure unflavored gelatin now alarmingly on the increase. Significantly, it was made quickly on very little money, as pictures go, and for a humble but reliable audience-the general equivalent of the audience which...