For a 1941 movie, it wasn't bad, but.....

Rating: Null/10 (14 April 2008)

To call it one of the best of all time is simply silly. I don't know how many movies I've seen in my last, but this is surely in the bottom quarter.
Maybe the biggest drawback is the lack of realism in the characters. I've found that to be true in a lot of the older movies (Birds, N by NW). The main characters aren't realistic; they're more like caricatures, not like any persons I've ever known. Too cardboard stand up, too over-drawn.
And the camera work, thought to be creative, was distracting. Viewing two people talking from a camera at ankle height is pointless.