If you are a knowledgeable film watcher who gets irrationally irritated by people calling films like this film noirs just because they are in black and white then please do not read the idiotic reviews on here. And don't read the reviews that liken it to a Hitchcock movie either, as they will annoy you too..... Hitch wouldn't have made this film even if he had a lobotomy. Julia Ross has a plot so full of holes you could drain your spaghetti in it and the heroine does such ridiculous things that you will find it maddening and very irritating. So daft is she that any sympathy that you have for her given her predicament quickly dissipates. It is impossible to believe her reaction to the vicar and friends arriving at the house or finding her at the back of the car. In fact it is impossible to buy into Foch's performance or the director's view of her performance. The ending is proposterous and the sudden shift in tone at the very very end doesnt work. Indeed, after a good opening twenty mins, much of the film doesn't work and it left me feeling very aggrieved, just like many of the reviews here.
Review of My Name Is Julia Ross
My Name Is Julia Ross
(1945)
Not a noir and certainly no Hitchcock
9 November 2019
Warning: Spoilers