Great story and acting. Lana Turner and Anthony Quinn are both excellent portraying a couple in love and the terrible price that they have to pay for their love. I strongly recommend this as a good film.

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Mr. David Harvie

Five Stars

Revisado en el Reino Unido 🇬🇧 el 7 de agosto de 2016

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A great thriller Starring Miss Lana Turner,fantastic performances from the entire cast,and with great thanks,from this seller.

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Jean Gross

Good movie

Revisado en Canadá 🇨🇦 el 4 de octubre de 2019

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Arrived on time . Well packaged. Good movie

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B. Wells

Glam-o-Rama Melodrama

Revisado en los Estados Unidos 🇺🇸 el 5 de agosto de 2019

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Portrait In Black" is Ross Hunter glam-o-rama filmmaking at its peak: allegedly directed by Michael Gordon, Hunter's plush fingerprints are all over this melodrama with a capital M. Lana Turner stars as the horny, long-suffering wife of ailing shipping tycoon, Lloyd Nolan. Lloyd, aside from being bedridden, is a real bastard to poor Lana, who lives only to please during those agonizing three minutes each morning when she bows down to Lloyd and receives her daily butt-chewing. After that kind of trauma, a gal needs those expensive shopping expeditions to downtown San Fran, not to mention a little extramarital canoodling in the arms of the hubby's doctor, Anthony Quinn.

Elsewhere, Lana's step-daughter (Sandra Dee) is having her own fling with handsome John Saxon, who has something to do with boats and wants a contract with Nolan's shipping line. Dee, ever suspicious of Lana's intentions, dotes on Daddy Lloyd though, conveniently never enters his sickroom (in fact, they never have any screen time together). Richard Basehart shows up as Nolan's slimy business partner who seriously wants to get into Lana's pants and take over the business once Nolan dies, while executive secretary Virginia Grey mopes around looking like she desperately needs to add some fiber to her diet.

Meanwhile, back at the manse, housekeeper Anna May Wong spends a great deal of time chiding shady chauffeur Ray ("My Favorite Martian") Walston for his out-of-control gambling habit that constantly requires more cash. Amidst all this butt-chewing and skullduggery, Lana emotes (boy, does she ever) and tugs neurotically at her perfect, platinum blonde coif while Dr. Anthony Quinn paces and chain smokes. He's leaving for Switzerland in a couple of days, for gosh sakes, and he NEEDS Lana by his side! For her part, Lana desperately loves Anthony, and Lana desperately loving anybody is usually a recipe for disaster: "Portrait In Black" is no exception. Everybody, upstairs and downstairs, is plotting one scheme or another, so it's no surprise when there's a murder. And, sure enough, one bad deed begets another.

Some have called "Portrait In Black" a neo-noir thriller but I can't think of a more preposterous (or ill-informed) description. Although this movie may have the basic elements of neo-noir (was neo-noir even a thing in 1960?), "Portrait In Black" is no "Body Heat" and Lana is no Kathleen Turner. With her over-the-top histrionics, spoiled whining and overall aura of entitlement, Lana's got none of the gutsy instincts of such tough femme fatales as Gloria Grahame and Jane Greer (or even the character she played eons earlier in "The Postman Always Rings Twice"). Swimming in a sea of estrogen, swathed in furs and turbans, and chauffeured around in a yacht-sized DODGE (?), Turner is a riot, emoting within an inch of her life and matched in every frame by an equally hammy and overwrought Anthony Quinn. Was he also swimming in Turner's sea? Honestly, I never thought much of Lana Turner's acting, but Anthony Quinn had "Viva Zapata" and "Lust For Life" under his belt, and was not far off from making "Lawrence of Arabia" and "Zorba, the Greek". "Portrait In Black" must have offered a nice paycheck. It doesn't really matter, though, because "Portrait In Black" is such a glorious hog-wallow of a movie, such a chicly unrestrained mess, that it's almost sublime. It's not a stretch to picture Carol Burnett and Harvey Korman playing these roles exactly as written: it would be equally hilarious. It's also hard not to wonder what Pedro Almodovar could do with this material. No wonder that this perfectly awful movie has managed to endear itself to me.

As far as the quality of the blu-ray goes, the colors jump back and forth from scene to scene, from splashy to washed out and back again, but that's not bothersome enough to detract from the onscreen shenanigans. In the end, the blu-ray offers no Criterion upgrade, but why would it? "Portrait In Black" is not a classic, nor even Ross Hunter's best, but it is completely nuts and great fun if you're willing to let yourself be sucked into this late mid-20th Century bit of nonsense.

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Murdering for Love

Revisado en los Estados Unidos 🇺🇸 el 6 de mayo de 2014

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Lana Turner and Anthony Quinn play excellent roles as lovers, only Turner has a problem; she is already married to a demanding, mean spirited and controlling tycoon dying from a terminal illness.... but for Turner and Quinn, he is not dying fast enough. Quinn plays the physician caring for Turners dying husband. Turner, desperate to get out of her marriage and be with Quinn, is faced with a suspecting step daughter, Sandra Dee, and an arrogant "wanna be her lover" Richard Basehart; who present problems for Turner and Quinn after pulling off the perfect murder of her husband. Just as they think they've gotten away with the murder, threatening letters start appearing in the mail claiming to have witnessed the murder, putting more stress on Quinn and Turners affair, leading them to recklessly search, find, and kill the person sending the letters. The suspense builds to unsuspecting twists and turns, and at the end, leaves the viewer reeling but satisfied.

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