http://archive.org/details/Strange_Illusion_1945

Decent Erdody musical score. That's 1 star bonus .

Found pretty average, at best.

Greats movie. Not a Noir but a good movie no less. The strange last minute where the main star were knocked unconscious cost the movie 1 star. He should have been celebrating his great accomplishment.
Hakuna

Kind of a freaky beginning, could not see the people in the dark so I made the image smaller on the screen and then it was okay. I liked the boy and of course Regis Toomy (who my sister and I couldn't figure out who he was or what show he was on)but I was not impressed with any of the other characters. Calling your mother Princess??? I can't fit that in any era.

I thought the acting in this was rather second rate, sort of Leave It To Beaverish, which was weird given the storyline. But the story, based on Hamlet was quite well done. The dream sequence was good too. Definitely worth a viewing or too.

BABatson's review was pretty strange. almost forgot to review the movie.

I was pleasantly surprized with this one it is pretty good and has some suspense. It's not Shakespeare, but its not bad!

Nobody else has mentioned this apparently. The plot is actually from Hamlet by Shakespeare.

This is the secdond time I have downloaded from IA that a completed download turned out to be damaged. I downloaded the 512 MP4 file. Same thing happened with another possibly interesting noir -- Shocked, with VIncent Price. I got about 15 minutes in and even though the file asize was large, playback stopped and would not continue past the 15 minute mark.

In those days, youth was afforded more dignity, and they carried themselves accordingly. Here is one to sit back with [someone] on a rainy afternoon; it will not continually drag you down into the mire, like 'Strange Loves of Martha Ivers'. It is well-carried. As a Christian, I have my views of life that take such things as appear here conjointly with his Faith. It disturbs one to see these otherwise fine old films be religion-neutral -- America was not that way until after the 1870s immigrations which brought in them who made America's film industry their own. Before 1865, everyone respected Christian or Jewish or Deist faiths, and God rarely was questioned, remembering though that Carl Marx's 'dialectical materialism' as a movement began circa 1835. But Strange Allusion has nothing to do with religious faith -- and in that, it rather provokes one in the sense of simulating thought. The filming is decent, as is the moral timbre, and not confined to inside-studios but evidently shot 'on location' after the unusual Introduction, about which fear not, for it is not a William Castle (and who is that other guy?) "cheapee" after all ... Three Stars, but solidly so.

Well. The ending sequence made me shed a tear or two.

Eerie opening (and closing) sequence is remarkable. Boyish leading man, likable AND deep, with a sixth sense. Good acting, photography, and dialogue. Good suspense. Definitely worth a watch.