Title: Even Olivier misses his mark here
Review: in this disappointing screen adaptation of Theodore Dreiser's powerful study of social darwinism, "Sister Carrie". That novel is one of the most riveting I've ever read, and I was looking forward to see this film. Yet Olivier played the Hurstwood character all wrong; he lacked the smooth bravura of the man who originally seduced away the Jennifer Jones character from her earlier lover played by Eddie Albert. Eddie Albert's performance, incidentally, is the only one that comes close to what Dreiser wrote. And Jennifer Jones gives us a Carrie who is sympathetic and nice, and Dreiser's Carrie is neither. This is one of those occasions where you wonder why they bothered to acquire the rights to the novel if they had no intention of realizing it accurately as a movie. Take my advice, and read the book.
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