http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0041871/
At turns, “Shockproof” can’t make up its mind on whether it’s a melodrama or a film noir. This schizophrenia is due to the fact that the co-writer is Sam Fuller and the director is Douglas Sirk, better known for technicolor weepies like “Magnificent Obsession” and “All That Heaven Allows.”
“Shockproof” stars Cornell Wilde, better known as the guy who rented a hotel room above Lucy and Ricky Ricardo when they went to Hollywood. He plays Los Angeles parole officer Griff Marat, trying to straighten out the life of recent parolee Jenny Marsh (played by Patricia Knight, who was Mrs. Cornell Wilde at the time).
The very sexy parolee can’t stay away from her former lover for whom she committed the murder that sent her to prison. Marat gives her a job in his home looking after his little brother and blind mom and soon familiarity turns to love between paroler and parolee. Then the ex-boyfriend decides to complicate things and that’s when the movie turns darker.
Very interesting, save for a tacked on “Hollywood” ending.
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I think this is a lesser work for both Sirk and Fuller, but I did enjoy it quite a bit (even if Cornel Wilde seems ineffective in nearly every film he made). The idea of Wilde's parole officer making so many wrong decisions, essentially in the name of loneliness, was somehow persuasive. I might like the idea of the Sirk-Fuller collaboration more than the actual product of it, though.
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