If you were attempting to define a typical Gainsborough movie this is the one you would cite; costume picture, tick; melodrama, tick; hoke, tick; cardboard characters, tick; studios' poster girls and boys, tick. As wartime escapism goes this was as good as it got albeit it appeared at the tail end of the war. Margaret Lockwood appeared to be auditioning for a cross between Scarltett O'Hara and almost any Bette Davis role. It must have been a treat for twenty-something moviegoers of the day to find Lockwood, Mason, Roc, and Kent sharing a screen with Granger and Calvert threatening to emerge at any moment and the likes of Martita Hunt and Felix Aylmer making up the numbers. For Nostalgics only.
Review of The Wicked Lady
