The performances transcend the film's tropes, grounding it in characters that feel more complete than this subgenre often produces.

This is ultimately a movie about the very bad things that can happen when we don't address our unease, when we just try to brush it off, whether that's to fit in or to preserve our self-image.

I enjoyed watching this film and would recommend other to give it a try , (as I am) but this movie, although enjoyable to watch due to the better than average acting fails to add anything new to its storyline that is all too familiar to these types of movies.

It is interesting even when nothing much happens, which is for most of its 3-hour running time. Read full review

Part Merle Oberon and part Maria Montez, former convent girl Phyllis Calvet leads two lives: one a great lady, the other a fiery gypsy. Her husband (Peter Glenville) and daughter (Patricia Roc) find clues to try and find her after she disappears to return to the gypsy colony she had previously disappeared from a year before. This second personality has her involved with the equally fiery Stewart Granger who vows revenge when he comes to think she is stepping out on him.Handsome to look at but on occasion a pretentious bore, this isn't a total fiasco, but not one of Gainsborough's true classics. The film actually is more interesting when it shows Calvert's emotions erupting as she transforms into her alter. Dulcie Gray steals every scene she is in as a feisty housekeeper, exclaiming at one point that "If they expect something to eat, the only thing they'll get is a piece of my mind". It should be noted that the cause of Calvert's split personality is pretty daring for its day, showing that since the British censors were quite different than the American Hays code, they could get away with things the major studios in Hollywood couldn't. I must also make a mention that in addition to the excellent art direction, the film's sound quality (particularly with its music) is striking as well.

This has got to be one of the most amazing movies I have ever seen. Not a dull moment to be had, and while it's not a thriller, it will certainly keep you on the edge of your seat. And boy are the love scenes steamy or what?? The only possible gripe is that it's extremely hard to believe that Miss Calvert could possibly have a daughter Miss Roc's age, and the casting is made even funnier when one knows the actual age difference between them (about 4 months), and has seen them act together in other movies where they play same-age friends, rather than inventing some non-existent 18 year age gap. Thus said, there truly would be no two women better suited to the roles, and they play their parts splendidly, with Phyllis Calvert expressing the mental anguish of her character's with such calibre that it certainly rivals Vivien Leigh's Blanche du Bois.

You're best to go into this one absolutely blind, as any knowledge of the plot will spoil it for you. For the first 15 minutes or so the audience is kept completely in the dark as to what this movie is even about. Gradually a mystery begins to take shape and then the rest of the movie draws us in to see where it leads.The early scenes have a somewhat over-the-top Gothic quality which could put some viewers right off, but patience pays; the mood changes and the rest of the movie becomes quite intriguing.Here's a slight hint – readers of romantic novels will definitely enjoy it, but that should not deter anyone else.

I enjoyed this movies more than some of the stuff turning up on our screens today. While some of the acting wasn't brilliant the story line was excellent and the characters were interesting, if not over the top sometimes.Phyllis Calvert played the the lead very well. Extremely well spoken, something you don't find in movies of late.Worth a look...