Daisy Kenyon

I recently saw Daisy Kenyon and was extremely disappointed. The film originally came out in 1947. At first it looked as though it would be a classic noir film with a strong Joan Crawford as a central character. She must choose between the married Dan and the sweet Peter.

Honestly, this film just barely held my interest. No one had any onscreen chemistry, and rather than being a strong female character, Crawford spend most of the film making bad choices and then whining about them. She goes back and forth between men, and rather than presenting the "I don't belong to any man" message shown on the poster, the film basically states that she needs a man to be happy and will settle for just about anyone. Dana Andrews and Henry Fonda were extremely uninteresting as the men that she must choose between.

This film is definitely not a must-see.