Catene

While I prefer Yvonne Sanson as a blond, as seen in Campane a martello [Alarm Bells] (1949), she's still a towering woman's figure that makes the melodrama in Catene [Chains] (1949) captivating. And alongside Amedeo Nazzari she gets a man that believably can handle her, even if there is a third party that disrupts their happiness. And how all that plays-out is what makes this good.

Estreava há exatos 70 anos na Itália. Isso fica tão evidente que foi escrito por homens de um dos países mais machistas do mundo que não tem como não se irritar. DVDrip no MakingOff.

An interesting noirish melodrama that focuses a bit too much on the melodrama for my liking, particularly towards the end where things feel increasingly forced and unreasonable.