I remember very little about this film but I quite liked the title.

My Dad took us to see it when we sere all on holiday at our close relatives in St. Albans where we went each year at this time – and loved it there.

ABOVE: Gaumont Cinema St Albans – remember as a child seeing ‘Trouble in the Glen’  there

I think it was showing at the Gaumont -near the station which is no longer there.

Produced and directed by Otto Preminger – Well that puts us off to a bad start –  and starring Dana Andrews,  this is a terrific 20th-Century Fox film. Dana Andrews is excellent as Mark Dixon, the tough guy who seems to hold  our sympathy. Watch out for  a very young Neville Brand.

Gene Tierney is once again teamed with Dana Andrews – they had been together in ‘Laura’ a few years before this. Gene Tierney  had two daughters, Antoinette Daria Cassini (October 15, 1943 – September 11, 2010) and Christina “Tina” Cassini (November 19, 1948 – March 31, 2015),

In June 1943, while pregnant with Daria, Tierney contracted rubella (German measles), likely from a fan ill with the disease.Daria was born prematurely in Washington, DC, weighing three pounds, two ounces (1.42 kg) and requiring a total blood transfusion.

The rubella caused congenital damage-  Daria was deaf, partially blind with cataracts, and severely mentally disabled. She was institutionalised for much of her life.

Gene Tierney’s friend Howard Hughes paid for Daria’s medical expenses, ensuring the girl received the best. Gene Tierney never forgot his act of kindness.    Daria Tierney died in 2010, at the age of 66.

 She was awarded a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6125 Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood, California on February 8, 1960.

I loved her in ‘Heaven Can Wait’ 1943 – filmed in that beautiful Technicolor of the time – never bettered – where she was top billed along with Don Ameche

Darryl F. Zanuck, founder of 20th Century-Fox, said she was unquestionably the most beautiful woman in movie history – not many would argue with that.