Dancing In The Dark Reviews

Not the 1949 William Powell musical, but a TV movie that gives Victoria Principal the chance to suffer in ways that Joan Crawford could only have dreamed of. Where do the producers of American teleplays find these true-life tales? Perhaps they just claim the films are based on actual events because they know no one would otherwise accept such melodramatic excess. Here, Principal is committed to an asylum by her husband, who refuses to believe that she is being sexually harassed by his father. Robert Vaughn is loathsome as the lecherous in-law, but there's little else to recommend in this excessive drama.

Virtually a monologue, well performed by Henry, of a woman who thoughtlessly follows a conventional life with a conventional husband and begins to wonder why it is so unfulfilling; the theme has been worked so often that its appeal has begun to pall.

Not the 1949 William Powell musical, but a TV movie that gives Victoria Principal the chance to suffer in ways that Joan Crawford could only have dreamed of. Where do the producers of American teleplays find these true-life tales? Perhaps they just claim the films are based on actual events because they know no one would otherwise accept such melodramatic excess. Here, Principal is committed to an asylum by her husband, who refuses to believe that she is being sexually harassed by his father. Robert Vaughn is loathsome as the lecherous in-law, but there's little else to recommend in this excessive drama.

Virtually a monologue, well performed by Henry, of a woman who thoughtlessly follows a conventional life with a conventional husband and begins to wonder why it is so unfulfilling; the theme has been worked so often that its appeal has begun to pall.