Shockproof was also an intersection for two men whose best work lay ahead of them: Samuel Fuller and Douglas Sirk. Whatever sparks existed in their real-life relationship, they’re hard to see in Shockproof.
Knight’s face is lovely in an angular sort of way, but her performance is the stuff of high camp. Griff is a “hands-on” parole officer, and he nominates himself (along with his mother and adorable kid brother) as the most suitable decent people for Jenny to spend time with, and his romantic notions carry the force of the law.Īs an actor, Wilde’s line delivery was never as impressive as his physique, but in his scenes with Knight he still comes off as the more seasoned thespian. Jenny’s parole officer, Griff Marat (Wilde), believes that all she needs is to spend time with normal, decent people, and she’ll straighten out her life. The problem is, he’s a criminal through and through. Jenny grew up in poverty, neglected by her parents, and the smooth-talking, wealthy Wesson swept her off her feet. She committed the murder to protect her lover, Harry Wesson (John Baragrey).
In Shockproof, Knight plays a woman named Jenny Marsh who has been paroled after a five-year stint in prison for murder. When Patricia Knight and Cornel Wilde starred together in Shockproof, they had been married 11 years. Just because two actors want to tie the knot and spend the rest of their lives together (or in most cases, several years of their lives together before separating), it doesn’t mean their real-life chemistry will translate to the big screen. For every Bogie and Bacall there’s also a Cruise and Kidman. Real-life married couples can have strange chemistry when they appear together in a film. This review originally appeared earlier this year at Film Noir of the Week. Leslie wants Jock to settle down on his Maryland farm to raise and sell race horses, but he has too much gypsy in his blood and wants to follow the race-track. In Buenos Aires, Leslie is jealous of Kitty Brant, an old flame of Jock's. Jock and Leslie fall in love and are married on a boat to South America. He finds out that she is engaged to Bill Van Dyke, a young diplomat, and follows her to London, entering the horse he acquired from Aunt Helen in the famed Ascot Gold Cup. Jock Wallace, an easy-going and rootless horse lover, is taken to task by Leslie Hale, who thinks he has swindled her Aunt Helen on the purchase of a horse. A film that qualifies as a Travelogue Documentary in that it contains footage of world-famous race tracks such as England's Ascot, Palermo in South America, and Churchill Downs, Jamaica, Aqueduct, Hollywood Park, Santa Anita, Belmont, Hialeah, Arlington and Saratoga in the United States, and since it begins in London in 1938, the Coronation of the King.
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