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Phonearl Good start, but then it gets ruined

Konterr Brilliant and touching

Cassandra Story: It's very simple but honestly that is fine.

arthur_tafero Dark Mirror stars a very talented Olivia DeHaviland, who would go to play another disturbed woman in Snake Pit. In this film, she plays the demanding role of twins, which sounds easy to do; but as we find out, there is a world of difference between twins. DeHaviland pulls it off, and the viewer will have a tough time deciding which twin is the killer, and which is the innocent one. Lew Ayres is very good as the psychiatrist who has to test the twins to see who is relatively normal, and who is out there in Howdydoodyville. A fascinating film to watch from beginning to end.

howardeisman Lew Ayres, suave, handsome and sophisticated, tests a pair of twins with "tests' which a decade later were found to be no better than tarot cards. He discoveres that one of the pair is a murder but he doesn't know which. There are two Olivia de Havillands, one good, one evil, but which is which? There is also a cop who keeps telling everyone that he is dumb, but is he?There is, of course, the psychotic, homicidal maniac, 1940s style, who appears to be perfectly normal until the end of the picture.Not bad material for a psycho, mystery melodrama. Olivia has a chance to show her acting chops, segueing from person to person, from personality to personality with facial expressions, voice intonations, and body language. A nice job but the story doesn't play out well. The background music swells up for dramatic moments, but it is counter-productive. It is loud and intrusive and it detracted attention from the scene being played out. Everything is played so that the viewer gets caught up in the mystery and the danger. But, all this just didn't pull me in.The film is a time passer and there are interesting things in it, but don't expect too much. Freud wouldn't have liked it, but there were very few things he did like

Fuzzy Wuzzy Released in 1946 - It seems that these days we are all too familiar with the movie-scenario of identical twins where one is innocently "good", while the other is deceptively (and murderously) "evil".But way back in the 1940s (nearly 70 years ago) this sort of intriguing plot-line was really quite fresh and its possibilities were far from being fully explored and exploited.Though it contained some dramatically intense moments, I found The Dark Mirror to be too cut & dry to be considered great entertainment.At times its story was very weak and clichéd. And even though the visual effects (showing the 2 De Havilland characters together) were exceptionally convincing, this film (due to its somewhat heavy-handed psychiatric angle) contained far too much senseless psycho-babble and Freudian-related analysis in it to be at all entertaining to the average movie-goer.I also agree 100% with the point that Dalbert Pringle made in his review about the absolute tackiness of a psychiatrist having an affair with one of his patience. That certainly reduced this film's appeal significantly.Filmed in b&w, The Dark Mirror had a rather short running time of only 85 minutes. It was directed by Robert Siodmak whose other films of the 1940s included Son Of Dracula, The Spiral Staircase and The Killers.

Dalbert Pringle Hey! I'm certainly no prude, but, regardless of whether it's "just-a-movie", or not, I am one who thinks it's absolutely deplorable when a "professional" (such as a physician or a psychiatrist) who, due to having a very low standard of ethics, becomes romantically involved with one (or more) of their patients.And this, I'm sorry to say, was the case here in The Dark Mirror.Supposedly a "respected" psychiatrist, Dr. Elliot, who was psycho-analyzing both Ruth & Terry Collins (to determine if either one of these identical twins could, in fact, be a murderess) became romantically involved with the "good" twin. (natch) The doc literally came onto this woman like a horny-toad buzzard, passionately and frequently embracing her, and kissing her, and telling her that he loved her.And I don't care that this was "just-a-movie" (even if it was from the 1940s), I think that this sort of unprofessional behaviour was absolutely despicable and completely unacceptable.And I definitely don't think that even "in-the-name-of-love" any movie (unless it's porn-trash) should give the green-light to something as contemptible as this in nature. No movie should treat this lousy business of a doctor sleeping with a patient as if it were alright. 'Cause it's not! When it comes to the likes of a professional's morals and ethics, it is very, very wrong. Indeed! And, like, who the hell did the producers of this picture think they were telling the audience that it's OK for a psychiatrist (out of his own selfish desires) to encourage sexual relations with his/her patient? And for that, this film only rates one star from me.