Dark Waters (United Artists) has all the makings of a first-class thriller and now & then seems likely to become one. But the grade-A eggs it breaks never quite make an omelet.
Its heroine (Merle Oberon), arriving in New Orleans after harrowing exposure in the lifeboat of a torpedoed ship, starts the picture quavering with a nervous breakdown, and soon involves herself in circumstances calculated to pass it on to her audience. She moves upstate, for a rest cure, to a quiet old sugar plantation, run by an uncle & aunt (John Qualen, Fay...
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