
Black Crown
1951


“Could I KILL ... and not remember?”
30 votes
Art curator George Steele experiences a train wreck...which never happened. Is he cracking up, or the victim of a plot?
Director
Irving ReisWriters
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If only Irving Reis had cast his net a bit wider when casting his leading man, here - then we could have ended up with a quality, sophisticated crime drama. Sadly, he didn't and we are stuck with a really quite dreary performance from Pat O'Brien as "George", an art critic who finds himself caught up in a train crash (or was it!?) and a well planned, psychologically driven, plot involving art fraud after he had suggested that modern day X-ray techniques be used to verify the authenticity of old masters on loan to a museum - including a Gainsborough and a Dürer. Luckily for him, Claire Trevor "…
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