Here she is, glugging away in Sirk’s 1958 The Tarnished Angels. Maybe she’s having a presentiment that thirty years or so from this point, she’ll be in Basic Instinct.
This terrific picture is part of a wonderful French Sirk box that’s the subject of today’s Foreign Region you-know-what. At The Auteurs.
Glenn, your DVD reviews are a fiscal menace. The last time we went to Paris you cost me more than 100 euros. I spent all day yesterday avoiding your DVD releases of the year post. And now you torment me with Sirk!
Jeez, the way things have been going lately, I saw the frame grab and assumed that Dorothy had died.
@Campaspe: All I can say is, buy now while the exchange rate is still relatively low!
It’s interesting that Billy Gray discussed his working with Sirk. I wonder if he saw the remake of “The Day the Earth Stood Still”?
As for “Interlude”, that’s one of the few Universal Sirk films I haven’t seen. I suspect the production was troubled from the start simply because they could not film Cain’s book as written, with the gay relationship,
Malone was one of the highlights of Basic Instinct. Still a stunning woman.