Without Honor
Sibling rivalry in the advanced stages leads to carryings-on (including near murders and almost-suicides) by some adults (Dane Clark, Laraine Day, Franchot Tone, Agnes Moorehead) who are old enough to know better. “The Hakim Brothers made something of a specialty of remaking French classics in Hollywood with disastrous results, as witness their metamorphosis of Le Jour se lève into The Long Night. Without Honor, a curious welding of soap opera to film noir, is ostensibly an original script, but has the look of having an obscure French film as an indirect ancestor. Clearly an attempt to make an ART picture with a capital ‘A' and to blazes with the box office, it really succeeds only in its later aim. It is pretentious, self-indulgent and over-produced, yet it tries, and one somehow feels that everybody involved, misguided or not, felt they were on to something good. Laraine Day was then in the throes of trying to become a serious actress, Dane Clark's character must rank as one of the most odious in screen history, and Steiner's score is unrestrained. A misfire, but a fascinating one--and well worth seeing if only for its magnificent End title!” William K. Everson