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Deception (1946)
Director: Irving Rapper
Movie review
From Time Out Film Guide
Four years after Now Voyager, Deception resurrects the same team for another grand emotional wallow - the 'woman's picture' at its historical zenith. Here, though, the passions are even more overblown, with Rains, excellent as a mad, bad composer, exerting a Svengali-like influence over Davis, his duplicitous pupil, and Henreid, as the master cellist who needs Rains' new composition to make his reputation but needs Davis even more. As she lies her way out of Rains' clutches and into marriage with Henreid, so the effects of her 'deceptions' become more corrosive. Blazing histrionics in the concert hall, crime passionel in the salon, and outside on the streets of Manhattan it's always raining. CPea.Author: CPea
Cast & crew
Director: Irving Rapper
Producer: Henry Blanke
Cast: Bette Davis, Claude Rains, Paul Henreid, John Abbott, Benson Fong full cast
Duration: 112 mins
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