'' is a
1944 drama directed by
Robert Siodmak . The
Black-and-white Film Noir is based on a novel by
W. Somerset Maugham . The adapted screenplay was written by
Herman J. Mankiewicz . Gene Kelly and Deanna Durbin are cast against type in this dark film noir. Kelly, who went on to appear in bright musicals, plays a non-singing and non-dancing murderous man while Durbin, who usually played girl next door in family musicals, plays a who falls for him and sticks with him even knowing he's a killer. The film is considered one of the bleakest film noirs of the 1940s.
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Deanna Durbin in ''Christmas Holiday'']]
