Shockproof
Director: Douglas Sirk
Year Released: 1949
Rating: 1.5
Griff (Cornel Wilde), an upstanding (and "smart") parole officer, becomes smitten with murderer Jenny (Patricia Knight, the former Mrs. Wilde) just as she gets out of the clink, except she's still beholden to the man (John Baragrey) she went to prison for in the first place. You'd think that a collaboration between Sirk and Samuel Fuller would lead to something wild and wonderful but no: I'm not entirely sure the premise itself is ethical or legal in the first place (can you let your parolee live with you?) and Jenny's 'appeal' is questionable: she's clearly a walking red flag and mesmerized by Baragrey's louse. Her eventual "change of heart" is solely engineered by the script, and let's not even talk about that lame duck of an ending.