Her absolutely best film work, IMHO, is in Max Ophul's "The Reckless Moment." Â It's next to impossible to find. Â They almost never air it and the only copy I have ever come across was a bootleg on eBay. Â It's a great little film noir and she and James Mason were superb.
Oh-oh, I had that on tape when it ran as a late-night movie on a local station about a year ago. Â I started watching it but couldn't quite get into it, and I think I then taped something else over it. Â I remember it was strange to see Joan Bennet so young ... as with another movie of hers that I caught a few minutes of a week or so ago, I recognized her voice and her movement/stance before realizing it was her. Â I didn't know the movie was by Ophul.
I wonder how it works that some small local stations have had some of these gems on hand but TCM and AMC don't. Â I'm thinking in particular of an old favorite I'd give anything to have a copy of, "Return from the Ashes" with Ingrid Thulin (alumna of Bergman films) and Maximilian Schell.
