So when did the Palmer family move into this house?
Horrific exploration of addiction and psychosis - by extrapolating every terrible “Dad” tendency into a torture chamber for James Mason’s family.
The patina of order and masculine virtue that define the 1950s in our collective memory is so thoroughly undercut by the era’s cinema.
Nicholas Ray just absolutely dismantles the idea that “father knows best”, addicted to “cortisone” or no.