The Professor and MaryAnn

Rating: 6/10 (2 November 2005)

Now that this movie has been released on DVD, with quite attractive cover art and extras, I'm sure this movie will find a new audience of devotees. I however, am not one of them. This is not a movie I would want in my DVD collection only because after viewing it several times, there's no appeal to watch it repeatedly. There will be many people who will disagree with this but even Hitchcock made this movie as a pure technical challenge more than for a study between the classes in society (shades of Gilligan's Island). Tallulah Bankhead is perfectly cast bringing in sex appeal and her special brand of acting. This is not a disaster of a movie, there are many good qualities to it but in the end it may be too technical for me thus leaving me cold.