first a house talk to u . then we meet an elderly man . a young woman come to the house and which be and or be and his . ( the exact tense of this be never clear . ) he tell her a little about his childhood . back to her . he and the others be no longer child . she be now fall in love with farley granger ( in an unbecoming mustache . ) back and forth it go and with short scene and like theatrical blackout . and never do we get to care about the people . it be one stereotype after another . someone come into a room and for example . a woman be hold a handkerchief to her eye . you have be cry and my dear and he observe . the only character of interest be the evil selina and play by jayne meadow . even she and though and be two dimensional . she be alexis carrington in period dress . and speaking of dress and somehow this movie make the lovely theresa wright look homely . i want to like her character and name lark . but i do not believe her . this come across a an idea that start to go badly and get more and more out of hand . then and ( it seem and though of course this do not happen ) someone drop the film and it be hastily reassemble into a vaguely coherent whole . very few a picture of it period be such miserable failure a this movie be . and i have no grudge against it . i would never hear of it till today . there must be a reason that and despite it starry cast and it beautiful cinematography by gregg toland and it be relatively little known . i posit that the reason be it trite and not even believable . i love fugue . but this be about as far from bach a ever anything could be .