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Variety's review concluded: "Sleep, My Love manages a fair share of suspense and adds up to okay melodrama. Plot gets off to a strong start and windup is high melodrama that brings off the finale on a fast note."
Mar 2, 2016 · The 1948 thriller Sleep, My Love, directed by Douglas Sirk, fits the pattern. Rich, childless Alison Courtland (Claudette Colbert) has an enviable life: a lavish Sutton Place mansion, a debonair husband (Don Ameche).
It´s good to know that Douglas Sirk not only made melodramas but also explored other genres. “Sleep, My Love” is a psychological noir thriller reminiscent of George Cukor´s “Gaslight”. It´s about a woman whose scumbag husband tries to make her question her sanity and drive her to suicide, so that he can inherit her family´s fortune.
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- Triangle Productions, Triangelfilm
- Douglas Sirk
Sleep, My Love: Directed by Douglas Sirk. With Claudette Colbert, Robert Cummings, Don Ameche, Rita Johnson. Chronic sleepwalker Alison Courtland thinks that a mysterious man wearing horned-rimmed eye glasses is out to kill her but her husband blames her tired imagination.
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- Drama, Film-Noir, Mystery
- Douglas Sirk
Sleep, My Love manages a fair share of suspense and adds up to okay melodrama. Plot gets off to a strong start and windup is high melodrama that brings off the finale on a fast note.
Apr 2, 2014 · Sleep, My Love, Douglas Sirk's 1948 melodrama, melds noir aesthetics with what would become the famed filmmaker's signature storytelling to create a crime-addled women's picture.
With noir’s reputation as a hardboiled, German expressionism-derived genre of shadowy streets and gravel-voiced gumshoes, one might be pardoned in forgetting the mother of the movement; melodrama. Douglas Sirk, though, arrives midway through its heyday with “Sleep, My Love,” which illuminates the reminder that noir is a genre born in ...
