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‘The Dark Mirror’ is a neat, if sometimes shaky, depiction of rival sisters

The Dark Mirror is the sort of film that, if remade today, would certainly have a vastly different vibe to it. The premise is one screenwriters and directors have mined many an occasion since this 1946 romantic thriller. From action films (Double Impact), to grisly psychological dramas (Dead Ringers), the premise of the dichotomous twin sibling syndrome is definitely familiar to many seasoned movie watchers.

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‘The Heiress,’ a quasi-tragic, 1840s New York love story

The Heiress Directed by William Wyler Written by Augustus and Ruth Goetz Starring Olivia de Havilland, Montgomery Clift, and Ralph Richardson USA, 115 min – 1949. William Wyler’s The Heiress tells the quasi-tragic story of Catherine Sloper (Olivia de Havilland), a plain-jane, Gilded Age heiress, who’s naiveté leads her into a courtship, with fortune-hunter, Morris …

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