Sensation Hunters [1945] [DVD]Robert Lowery (actor) Doris Merrick (actor)
Format: all-region dvd (worldwide) Runtime: 1h2m Quality: Very Good, b/w, 4:3
Unpredictable little character drama from Monogram. Doris (Merrick) is an innocent young woman from a mean-spirited family, so we begin by rooting for her and her situation. Looking to get away from family, she meets handsome Danny (Lowery). He's an apparent rover with a mysterious past and no apparent job.
Trouble is she's beguiled by him even though he comes and goes like the wind. So she takes a job at a shady nightclub he frequents hoping he'll return. Meanwhile, she puts off her old bandleader boyfriend Ray (Quillan), and the more rooted life he offers. Thus, what will happen to her now that she's entered a new, darker world with unknown connections.
The story's told in flashback from an abruptly mysterious opening, while the ending is also abrupt casting a cloud over the conventional happy ending. A distinctive difference in the narrative is the threads we're left to fill in, such as the relationship between shady Lou
(Paiva) and Danny, or even how Danny supports himself. ~ imdb |