Lucybespro It is a performances centric movie

Holstra Boring, long, and too preachy.

filippaberry84 I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.

Lidia Draper Great example of an old-fashioned, pure-at-heart escapist event movie that doesn't pretend to be anything that it's not and has boat loads of fun being its own ludicrous self.

philrodwell-1 What were these two veterans thinking of when they became involved in this juvenile comic strip? You may not have to be the sharpest tool in the box to be an actor but couldn't they recognise schlock when they saw it? Oh well, at least Miss Stanwyck, having dipped a toe in the murky pond of William Castle's productions, decided to avoid the occasionally hysterical film fate of Bette and Joan and stick to television.The dummies used in the chapel scene were more animated than poor old Robert Taylor — never the most exciting of actors here he sometimes seems to be wearing more make-up than Stanwyck while reacting like someone who'd taken a nice sedative just before walking onto the set.

mark.waltz With sinister music sounding much like "Oliver's" "Food Glorious Food" and taking it down the realm of something you might hear in Disney's Haunted Mansion, "The Night Walker" is perhaps one of the best of the "Let's put an axe in the old dame's hand and see what she does with it" films. O.K., so leading lady Barbara Stanwyck gets no axe or butcher knife, but what she does get is to scream her head off as she wonders why the nightmares she's having seem so real. Stanwyck gets the chance to be reunited with her ex-husband, Robert Taylor, here, but really, it is her show, not his. Taylor's presence is really more of a curio for their first teaming in almost 30 years and the gossip columnist's opportunity to recall their Cinderella romance of the mid-late 30's which lead to his alleged infidelities and their divorce in the early 1950's.Hayden Roarke, of "I Dream of Jeannie" fame, plays Stanwyck's deceased husband who died years ago in a fire, and his presence in her nightmares make Stanwyck convinced that something amiss. You half expect her to scream, like Mia Farrow in "Rosemary's Baby", in the middle of one of these dreams, that she's aware that what she appears to be dreaming is truly real. Lloyd Bochner, who ironically played one of Stanwyck's brothers on "Dynasty" (whom she never got to share scenes with), is another presence in the dream, and this is where the spooky music comes in. The film isn't as scary as the same year's "Hush, Hush Sweet Charlotte", but it isn't as campy as either "Baby Jane" or "Die Die My Darling!". What it is turns out to be a riveting thriller where Stanwyck, after years of all those "tough dame" roles, gets to be a little more vulnerable, and is totally convincing in doing so.While William Castle certainly turned up the "camp" level in his films at Columbia, here he gets a more seriously themed plot than normal, and the laughs (both intentional and unintentional) are at a minimal. Several other veterans are seen in pivotal roles, but this is a shear reminder of the power that Stanwyck had shown, and continued to show, way past her romantic leading lady/film noir femme fatal prime and makes her one of the treasured stars of the golden age of cinema long after her career ended.

Michael Neumann This bargain basement Hitchcock plagiarism (from the author of 'Psycho') stars Barbara Stanwyck as an unhappy widow who fears the ghost of her tragically killed husband is trying to drive her insane. But is she truly haunted, or only hallucinating? And who is that tall, dark and handsome stranger who stalks her dreams night after night? There are more plot holes than you'd care to count before the astonishing resolution, but like any guilty pleasure the film is certainly enjoyable in a ludicrous, low rent sort of way. It's all very stylish and improbable, and thrown together (like all good B-movies) with a brazen disregard for logic. Along the way are (surprisingly) one or two truly frightening moments, and the atmospheric (if not exactly subtle) chiaroscuro visual effects are first rate. Don't miss the portentous introductory narration, explaining the psycho-significance of dream imagery.

4friedchickensandacoke William Castle's B/W thriller ( 1964 )with Barbara Stanwick and Robert Taylor .. Is this available on TCM ?? I see it is not available on DVD,, but there a lot of great films not available that get run regularly on TCM . I thought there was a box I could check that would alert me when this title is to be run during the week, so I won't miss it. For those of you who are familiar with this Gothic style horror film,, Castle did wonders with the Music, the Angles of the camera lens and the Black and White composition of this little 86 minute gem of a film. The music of this film gives me the creeps whenever I think of the melody. And the angle of the Dutch framing ( on an angle ) makes the horror that much better.