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Nancy (Laraine Day) appears to be the perfect bride for her fiancée John Willis (Gene Raymond) and everything is set for a perfect wedding ceremony...until her former husband Harry Blair (Brian Aherne) approaches Willis and explains how Nancy ruined his life, eventually leaving him in a psychiatric ward. As Blair s story unfolds in flashbacks, he recounts how Nancy s previous lover, the renowned artist Norman Clyde (Robert Mitchum) warned him of Nancy s kleptomania, incessant lying and involvement with murder; and at the time, Blair refused to believe Clyde, believing him to be the jilted lover. But is Blair s story also that of the jilted lover; or is he trying to save Willis from marrying a woman with a dark secret?
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6 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
RKO Radio Pictures presents "THE LOCKET" (20 December 1946) (86 min/B&W) (Fully Restored/Dolby Digitally Remastered) -- The plot itself is relatively simple: Nancy (Laraine Day) is a kleptomaniac, driven to steal anything that strikes her fancy (the original title of the film was "What Nancy Wanted") --- Nancy's compulsion springs from a childhood incident, in which she was given a locket as birthday gift, which was then taken away from her by the cruel Mrs. Willis (Katherine Emery), her mother's employer --- But when the locket goes missing, Nancy is suspected of having stolen it to recover the trinket for herself --- Although it is later discovered that the locket simply fell in the hem of a garment, Nancy is never truly exonerated.
The world of The Locket is the domestic sphere in peril, in collapse, existing outside the normative values of postwar society, values that are themselves constantly in a state of flux --- The family unit is constantly celebrated in the dominant media as the ideal state of social existence, but is it, when so much is at risk, and so much is unexplained? --- For Nancy in The Locket, the answer is a resounding no.
Outstanding cast inclusive with top-notch performances, as Laraine Day gets prettier in every scene, this was her years of natural beauty.
Under the production staff of:
John Brahm [Director]
Sheridan Gibney [Screenplay]
Bert Granet [Producer]
Jack J. Gross [Executive Producer]
Roy Webb [Original Music]
Nicholas Musuraca [Cinematographer]
J.R. Whittredge [Film Editor]
BIOS:
1. John Brahm [aka: Hans Brahm] [Director]
Date of Birth: 17 August 1893 - Hamburg, Germany
Date of Death: 12 October 1982 - Malibu, California, USA
2. Laraine Day [aka: Laraine Johnson]
Date of Birth: 13 October 1920 - Roosevelt, Utah
Date of Death: 10 November 2007 - Ivins, Utah
3. Brian Aherne [aka: William Brian de Lacy Aherne]
Date of Birth: 2 May 1902 - King's Norton, Worcestershire, England, UK
Date of Death: 10 February 1986 - Venice, Florida
4. Robert Mitchum
Date of Birth: 6 August 1917 - Bridgeport, Connecticut
Date of Death: 1 July 1997 - Santa Barbara, California
the cast includes:
Laraine Day - Nancy Monks Blair Patton
Brian Aherne - Dr. Harry S. Blair
Robert Mitchum - Norman Clyde
Gene Raymond - John Willis
Sharyn Moffett - Nancy: age 10
Ricardo Cortez - Andrew 'Drew' Bonner
Henry Stephenson - Lord Wyndham
Katherine Emery - Mrs. Willis
Reginald Denny -Mr. Wendell aka Uncle Arthur
Mr. Jim's Ratings:
Quality of Picture & Sound: 4 Stars
Performance: 5 Stars
Story & Screenplay: 5 Stars
Overall: 5 Stars [Original Music, Cinematography & Film Editing]
Total Time: 86 min on DVD ~ RKO Radio Pictures ~ (11/10/2010)
The world of The Locket is the domestic sphere in peril, in collapse, existing outside the normative values of postwar society, values that are themselves constantly in a state of flux --- The family unit is constantly celebrated in the dominant media as the ideal state of social existence, but is it, when so much is at risk, and so much is unexplained? --- For Nancy in The Locket, the answer is a resounding no.
Outstanding cast inclusive with top-notch performances, as Laraine Day gets prettier in every scene, this was her years of natural beauty.
Under the production staff of:
John Brahm [Director]
Sheridan Gibney [Screenplay]
Bert Granet [Producer]
Jack J. Gross [Executive Producer]
Roy Webb [Original Music]
Nicholas Musuraca [Cinematographer]
J.R. Whittredge [Film Editor]
BIOS:
1. John Brahm [aka: Hans Brahm] [Director]
Date of Birth: 17 August 1893 - Hamburg, Germany
Date of Death: 12 October 1982 - Malibu, California, USA
2. Laraine Day [aka: Laraine Johnson]
Date of Birth: 13 October 1920 - Roosevelt, Utah
Date of Death: 10 November 2007 - Ivins, Utah
3. Brian Aherne [aka: William Brian de Lacy Aherne]
Date of Birth: 2 May 1902 - King's Norton, Worcestershire, England, UK
Date of Death: 10 February 1986 - Venice, Florida
4. Robert Mitchum
Date of Birth: 6 August 1917 - Bridgeport, Connecticut
Date of Death: 1 July 1997 - Santa Barbara, California
the cast includes:
Laraine Day - Nancy Monks Blair Patton
Brian Aherne - Dr. Harry S. Blair
Robert Mitchum - Norman Clyde
Gene Raymond - John Willis
Sharyn Moffett - Nancy: age 10
Ricardo Cortez - Andrew 'Drew' Bonner
Henry Stephenson - Lord Wyndham
Katherine Emery - Mrs. Willis
Reginald Denny -Mr. Wendell aka Uncle Arthur
Mr. Jim's Ratings:
Quality of Picture & Sound: 4 Stars
Performance: 5 Stars
Story & Screenplay: 5 Stars
Overall: 5 Stars [Original Music, Cinematography & Film Editing]
Total Time: 86 min on DVD ~ RKO Radio Pictures ~ (11/10/2010)
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
The locket is directed by John Brahm and based on a screenplay written by Sheridan Gibney, which in turn is adapted from the story What Nancy Wanted" written by Norma Barzman. It stars Laraine Day, Brian Aherne, Robert Mitchum and Gene Raymond. Music is by Roy Webb and cinematography by Nicholas Musuraca. Story tells of how a bride to be, who as a child was traumatised by a false charge of stealing, grows up to badly affect the men who wander into her life.
You don't know the truth from lies, you are just a love sick quack...
A psychological melodrama with film noir flecks, The Locket turns out to be a most intriguing picture. Director Brahm brings into the production not only his baroque know how, where his Germanic keen eye for mood is so evident in films like The Lodger and Hangover Square, but also a dizzying array of flashbacks in a collage of psychological murkiness. Structured as it is, film can be disorientating if one isn't giving the film the undivided attention it needs. But for those all in with it, it delivers rewards a plenty, even if some daft touches stop it from being an essential picture for the genre seeker. Essentially the film is a case study of one young female mind deeply affected to the point it has great implications on those who become involved with her. Story raises some queries about about the treatment of mental health patients, and their place in society, while some of the characterisations, although hampered by plot holes, have good dramatic worth.
Sheridan Gibney does a very good job with the screenplay, the tricky subject is given some thoughtful consideration whilst toying with the audience's loyalties about possible femme fatale Nancy (Day), the ambivalence of which makes the ending far better than it probably has any right to be. Credit is due to Brahm, then, for bringing it home safely after employing such a tricky narrative device, it's far from being up with his best work, but it does showcase what a talent the German émigré was. Of the cast it's the very pretty Laraine Day (latterly I Married a Communist and The High and the Mighty) who shines in a tricky role, while there's a nice stern performance in the support slots from Katherine Emery as Mrs. Mills. Mitchum was yet to find his acting marker (which would come the following year in Out of the Past and Crossfire), and here he's a touch miscast and gets by on presence alone: with his character getting one of the films duffer leaps in logic moments, literally! And Aherne, is passable and easy to listen too, but never really convinces as a psychiatrist. Musuraca photographs in suitable black and white shadowy tones, but like Brahm and Mitchum, this is a distance from the upper echelons of his best work.
If you can undemandingly get past those daft touches and crucially pay attention, The Locket is well worth the time spent with it. 7/10
You don't know the truth from lies, you are just a love sick quack...
A psychological melodrama with film noir flecks, The Locket turns out to be a most intriguing picture. Director Brahm brings into the production not only his baroque know how, where his Germanic keen eye for mood is so evident in films like The Lodger and Hangover Square, but also a dizzying array of flashbacks in a collage of psychological murkiness. Structured as it is, film can be disorientating if one isn't giving the film the undivided attention it needs. But for those all in with it, it delivers rewards a plenty, even if some daft touches stop it from being an essential picture for the genre seeker. Essentially the film is a case study of one young female mind deeply affected to the point it has great implications on those who become involved with her. Story raises some queries about about the treatment of mental health patients, and their place in society, while some of the characterisations, although hampered by plot holes, have good dramatic worth.
Sheridan Gibney does a very good job with the screenplay, the tricky subject is given some thoughtful consideration whilst toying with the audience's loyalties about possible femme fatale Nancy (Day), the ambivalence of which makes the ending far better than it probably has any right to be. Credit is due to Brahm, then, for bringing it home safely after employing such a tricky narrative device, it's far from being up with his best work, but it does showcase what a talent the German émigré was. Of the cast it's the very pretty Laraine Day (latterly I Married a Communist and The High and the Mighty) who shines in a tricky role, while there's a nice stern performance in the support slots from Katherine Emery as Mrs. Mills. Mitchum was yet to find his acting marker (which would come the following year in Out of the Past and Crossfire), and here he's a touch miscast and gets by on presence alone: with his character getting one of the films duffer leaps in logic moments, literally! And Aherne, is passable and easy to listen too, but never really convinces as a psychiatrist. Musuraca photographs in suitable black and white shadowy tones, but like Brahm and Mitchum, this is a distance from the upper echelons of his best work.
If you can undemandingly get past those daft touches and crucially pay attention, The Locket is well worth the time spent with it. 7/10
4 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
The screen play has some strange flaws, it is probably intended we should never get inside the mind of Nancy (Laraine Day) and that works fine for most of the drama, we learn all about her past in flashbacks, but there is no clue as to how or why she met James Willis (Gene Raymond) the man she is currently marrying, a man that connects with the traumatic childhood event that underlies the films drama. This is important as it prevents the viewer from forming an opinion of what is really happening in what is essentially a now you see it now you don't scenario.
The ending appears rushed and must have puzzled a fair proportion of the original cinema audiences.
However The Locket was a real discovery for me, and coupled with a transfer from a good original copy, and above average sound quality for 1946 is a firm recommendation.
The ending appears rushed and must have puzzled a fair proportion of the original cinema audiences.
However The Locket was a real discovery for me, and coupled with a transfer from a good original copy, and above average sound quality for 1946 is a firm recommendation.
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