Dragonwyck

Joseph Mankiewicz's directorial debut and it's a good Gothic tale. Vincent Price does an excellent job playing a rich murderous drug addict. The DVD has two vintage radio shows of this story, one of them performed by Teresa Wright (Shadow Of A Doubt, Best Years...). I'm a fan of Old Time Radio and had fun listening to Mr. Price play a detective in The Saint.

25: Miranda (Gene Tierney) speaks with the maid who says "One day you'll wish with all your heart you never came to Dragonwyck." The focus has been on Gene's wish to live in another world away from the farm she grew up in. Gene helps Vincent's child about handwriting. The child says she doesn't love her parents. The birth of something new.

45: The handsome Dr. Turner arrives at Dragonwyck to plead with Vincent to help a man named Bleecker who is unjustly accused. Vincent won't help until Gene shows up. Dr. Turner becomes aware that Vincent loves Gene. Now that I'm aware.

-45 (142 - 45 = 57): After Vincent's wife dies, Gene leaves Dragonwyck to go back to live on the farm. Dr. Turner rides on a horse and stops her carriage. He tells her he wants to visit her at the farm. "Will next week be too soon?" This exact line ends the movie on a happy note, but at this point in the story Gene is too wrapped up in Vincent and luxury and now is when the good doctor discovers it. Discovery.

60: Gene's father (Walter Huston) argues with his daughter, who seems too focused on fancy outfits and finer things and people. Vincent arrives and proposes marriage. There's no going back now.

-25: Dr. Turner is with Gene who is sick in bed about to give birth. The baby boy will die and devastate Vincent. Vincent will become a drug addict and goes mad, dying in a large chair at the end of the movie. We learn that he killed his first wife and tried to kill Gene using deadly flowers. The final turning point.