Okay, so the ending revealed that it was all a dream. Given that this plot device wasn't such a cliché back in 1944, I'll give this otherwise great film a pass for that. However, doesn't it seem mighty unusual that the professor would have dream sequences of scenarios in which he wasn't involved and physically present?
shareHe had told her what to do though in the case where Joan Bennett (Alice Reed) was trying to poison the man trying to blackmail them. So he imagined what happened. I think people can have dreams where they are watching events rather than being immersed in them. Plus, its a movie. ;) I had really expected him to die in the end. I thought he would answer the phone, find out he had been cleared and then know he would going to die in a half hour.
shareInteresting. Thanks Daisy. I guess my dreams are heavily skewed toward a first-person POV.
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