Obsessions

Original title: Flesh and Fantasy

1943
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1h 34m

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Charles Boyer and Barbara Stanwyck in Obsessions (1943)

An anthology of three loosely connected occult tales, with ironic and romantic twists.An anthology of three loosely connected occult tales, with ironic and romantic twists.An anthology of three loosely connected occult tales, with ironic and romantic twists.

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6.9/10

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Trivia
A fourth story was filmed but was cut from the final print; it was to open the film and the discovery of the drowned body was to link it to the mask story. The cut footage was expanded into a feature film, 1944's "Destiny" with Alan Curtis and Gloria Jean.

Quotes
Doakes: [Last lines to Davis as he is leaving the club study] Let me give you some advice, Chum. Forget all these old bugaboos, dreams and fortune tellers and drinking out of your left hand. It's the bunk. It's superstition. That's what it is, and superstition is for gypsies.
Doakes: [He laughs] Superstition...
[He mutters indistictly as he works his way around the ladder that is blocking the doorway]

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Featured in Tales of the Uncanny (2020)

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8/10

Charming

A charming "anthology" motion picture, of the kind that was briefly popular in the 1940s. This one contains three stories, each of a supernatural bent. None really brilliant, but diverting.

The second piece was the best. This was based on a story by Oscar Wilde (not Noel Coward, as incorrectly stated in another review). Edward G. Robinson plays a lawyer haunted by a prediction that he will murder someone, and the always-watchable Thomas Mitchell is the palm-reader.

The first, with Robert Cummings and Betty Field in a story set in the Mardi Gras, is appealing in a naive way. The third segment, set in a circus, is the weakest. Charles Boyer an acrobat? No way.

This movie suffers somewhat from some of the most unconvincing studio-bound "locations" I have ever seen. I know, this was the 1940s and all that, made in the middle of the war, but puh-lease!