Rings on Her Fingers (1942)

User Rating:

6.6/10   

Director:

Rouben Mamoulian

Writers:

Ken Englund (writer)
Robert Pirosh (story)

Release Date:

20 March 1942 (USA)

Genre:

Comedy | Romance

Tagline:

she kissed him out of his life's savings... but the poor guy loved it...

Plot:

Susan Miller works behind the girdle counter in a department store and dreams about the beautiful clothes and glamour she can never hope to have...

Plot Keywords:

Con Artist | Department Store | Beautiful Woman

Cast

Henry Fonda	...	John Wheeler
Gene Tierney	...	Susan Miller / Linda Worthington
Laird Cregar	...	Warren
Shepperd Strudwick	...	Tod Fenwick (as John Shepperd)
Spring Byington	...	Mrs. Maybelle Worthington
Frank Orth	...	Kellogg
Henry Stephenson	...	Colonel Prentiss
Marjorie Gateson	...	Mrs. Fenwick
George Lessey	...	Fenwick Sr.
Iris Adrian	...	Peggy
Harry Hayden	...	Train Conductor
Gwendolyn Logan	...	Miss Calahan
Eric Wilton	...	Butler
William 'Billy' Benedict	...	Newsboy
Sarah Edwards	...	Mrs. Clancy

Runtime:

86 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Black and White

Aspect Ratio:

1.37 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono (Western Electric Mirrophonic Recording)

Certification:

Finland:S

Company:

Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation

Soundtrack:

Rock-a-Bye Baby

Charming opening degenerates into silliness; one of Henry Fonda's few poor performances...

Unrefined shopgirl is pegged by a confidence couple to use as a lure for bilking wealthy men--she hesitates for a moment, but is soon in cahoots with the wily twosome, that is until she falls for one of their victims: a bumbling (and broke) mathematician. Gene Tierney has some wonderful scenes at the beginning, bored with her job and ready to take an early powder, but there's nothing exciting about the man she loves (he's more an overripe juvenile), and pretty soon the movie is going around in circles. There's a private detective who works for peanuts and yet has more information than the F.B.I., not to mention an upscale gambling casino that becomes rigged at random. Henry Fonda, talking too loudly and over-enunciating, is stuck with the movie-world's most rotten concoction--a penniless kid with principles who is too proud to accept easy money--and he does nothing interesting with it. Might have been a far better picture if the love story were dropped, focusing primarily on salesgirl Tierney and her love-hate relationship with the con-artists. Film is easily summed up by one line of dialogue: "Eegads! Did you ever see anything so corny?" ** from ****