Saratoga Trunk (1946)
This is like two separate movies.
The first is dark in tone and regards a woman coming to New Orleans in the late 1800s to blackmail those who slighted her mother. But, hey, her mom was the “other woman” to the patriarch of a society family so it seems to me that a little shunning's in order. Once the family pays her off to leave New Orleans, it’s time for the second movie: this one’s a fluffy tale of a woman scheming to marry a rich man and lying her ass off to do it.
Both stories feature the Texas feller who sees right through her, a frowny Haitian maid/cook/witch (who’s a dead ringer for an older, swarthier Zosia Mamet), and a dwarf servant who made me cringe with his antics. First movie was awful. Second movie was sometimes enjoyable.
The first is dark in tone and regards a woman coming to New Orleans in the late 1800s to blackmail those who slighted her mother. But, hey, her mom was the “other woman” to the patriarch of a society family so it seems to me that a little shunning's in order. Once the family pays her off to leave New Orleans, it’s time for the second movie: this one’s a fluffy tale of a woman scheming to marry a rich man and lying her ass off to do it.
Both stories feature the Texas feller who sees right through her, a frowny Haitian maid/cook/witch (who’s a dead ringer for an older, swarthier Zosia Mamet), and a dwarf servant who made me cringe with his antics. First movie was awful. Second movie was sometimes enjoyable.
C+
posted by MeMe | 9:43 PM
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