The Two Mrs. Carrolls

The Two Mrs. CarrollsMatrimony means different things to different people. For temperamental artist Geoffrey Carroll, it means he's in his element. And out of his mind. In their only screen pairing, two of film's all time greats star in a psychological thriller rife with pelting rain and pealing bells, blackmail and murder, calculated dread and an unnerving finale. Humphrey Bogart portrays Geoffrey, who's making a habit of poisoning one wife and marrying another when the

Fearing for their lives

gags range from dead-on deadpan to comedic broadsides

Drawn to an alluring beauty he meets aboard a train

gives his breakthrough performance as villainous Rupert

Mae Doyle is a good-time girl

Ethel Waters plays MacDonald's savvy maid who belts out a knockout version of "Buds Won't Bud

Horton and Eric Blore as an imperious oboist) and the sublime (Pons' glorious voice graces several numbers

ex-shopgirl Irene O'Dare (Anna Neagle) puts on a vintage blue gown that belonged to her late mother

In that world

salivating over Molner's distraught wife (Inger Stevens)

Red Skelton was already a presence on early TV

has her own ideas about these matters - and an eye for a guy (John Saxon) who's a drummer in the dance band