Title:Caught

Date: 1949
Type: Drama / Romance
Rating: 4/5
Colour: Yes
Director: Max Opuls
Producer: Wolfgang Reinhardt


Comment
A young woman (Barbara Bel Geddes) dreams of marrying a rich husband. She gets a job modeling clothes in a department store where she is approached by a man working for a wealthy business man to invite her to a party on a boat. When she goes to the boat, she meets the man (Robert Ryan) but rejects his advances. After a meeting with his psychiatrist he decides to marry her and she accepts as it is her dream to marry a rich man. However she quickly realises that he is abusive and controlling. Eventually she leaves him and gets a job as receptionist to a doctor (James Mason) working with the poor of New York. The plot is not subtle in its comparison of love and money, but there are good performance from the three lead characters and it is well filmed for the period
Actors
James Mason
Barbara Bel Geddes
Robert Ryan
Frank Ferguson
Curt Bois
Ruth Brady
Natalie Schafer
Art Smith
Oscars
None