The Dark Mirror

I asked Gemini, Google’s AI thingie, what the best “abnormal psychology” film noir was, pretty certain it would say The Dark Mirror. It did. Along with In a Lonely Place and Night of the Hunter, a couple of other suggestions. In the halls of appreciation of old movies those last two get plenty of love, but for some reason 1946’s The Dark Mirror seems to have fallen by the wayside a bit. Which is unfair for all sorts of reasons. The plot is a cracker, for starters. A doctor has been murdered but the woman placed at the scene of the crime has a watertight alibi. She was elsewhere, and several witnesses can … Read more