The Dark Mirror

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The Dark Mirror

1946,

1h 25m,

Crime/

Drama

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78%

9 Reviews

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58%

250+ Ratings

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78%

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9 Reviews

58%

Popcornmeter

250+ Ratings

After a doctor is murdered, Lt. Stevenson (Thomas Mitchell) questions the man's girlfriend, Terry Collins (Olivia de Havilland). Sensing that she's keeping a secret, Stevenson confronts Terry in her home, where he meets her identical twin sister, Ruth (also de Havilland). Both women appear exactly alike, sometimes even posing as each other. However, when twin expert Dr. Elliott (Lew Ayres) analyzes the sisters, he finds that one twin is normal, while the other is psychotic -- but which one?

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Richard Brody

The New Yorker

Nov 26, 2012

Its evocation of biological destiny wrenches the modernistic romance into tragedy.

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Yasser Medina

Cinefilia

Mar 8, 2024

7/10

A gripping and finely tuned psychological thriller of film noir, which never loses its sense of intrigue as it narrates its plot of murder, jealousy and psychoanalysis with the formidable performance of Olivia de Havilland. [Full review in Spanish]

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Justine Smith

Vague Visages

Nov 21, 2023

It complicates our perception of good and evil by suggesting that within us — existing simultaneously — is the choice between good and evil.

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Josh Larsen

LarsenOnFilm

Jul 27, 2020

3/4

...a fiendishly fun double role for Olivia de Havilland.

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Josephine O'Neill

Daily Telegraph (Australia)

Apr 2, 2019

This engrossing psychological drama frames a remarkable performance by Olivia de Havilland.

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Geoffrey O'Brien

The New York Review of Books

Aug 13, 2018

The texture triumphs, partly because Robert Siodmak's direction imparts an appropriately somnambulistic tone to the proceedings.

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Harry S

Jan 11, 2019

Hokey melodrama about twin sisters, one of whom is an evil murderess. Boringly acted by a miscast Olivia de Havilland and glib Lew Ayres, this doesn't begin to mine the premise for all the psychological possibilities on offer. And its tone is strangely comic, not helped by an overwrought Dimitri Tiomkin score. Not one of Robert Siodmak's finest hours.

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Robert Siodmak

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Olivia de Havilland

Terry

Lew Ayres

Dr. Scott Elliott

Thomas Mitchell

Lt. Stevenson

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Synopsis

After a doctor is murdered, Lt. Stevenson (Thomas Mitchell) questions the man's girlfriend, Terry Collins (Olivia de Havilland). Sensing that she's keeping a secret, Stevenson confronts Terry in her home, where he meets her identical twin sister, Ruth (also de Havilland). Both women appear exactly alike, sometimes even posing as each other. However, when twin expert Dr. Elliott (Lew Ayres) analyzes the sisters, he finds that one twin is normal, while the other is psychotic -- but which one?

Director: Robert Siodmak
Producer: Nunnally Johnson
Screenwriter: Nunnally Johnson
Distributor: Universal Pictures
Production Co: International Pictures, Nunnally Johnson Productions
Genre: Crime, Drama
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Oct 18, 1946, Original
Release Date (Streaming): Mar 10, 2017
Runtime: 1h 25m

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