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Title: Aha!
Review: After seeing this movie again recently, I know what the real shortcoming is. It's simply that the subclimactic scenes are treated with the imposed impact of a climax. In other words, since so much terror is trying to be throttled out of every decisive individual scene, the impact of the climax is let down. If maybe the handling in these vital--but not climactic--scenes had implied the terror more subtly, the denouement would have taken on the power of a crescendo, thus making it much more effective; and thereby, satisfying. Everything I stated below about this picture still goes. (Except maybe I was a little too harsh on ol' Joe Cotten. They just don't give him much room to make an impact.) All told, this is still one of the most terrifying movies ever made, a real masterpiece of atmosphere.
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