***SPOILER*** Slow moving and at times boring psychological drama that has nothing at all to do with the movie "Psycho" which by its title-Psyche 59-it can easily be mistaking for.
Alison Crawford, Patricia Neal, has been blind for five years since on that fatefully summer day in 1959-the year that the movie's title indicates-when she feel down a flight of stairs at Grandma's, Beatrix Lehmann, place in the country and ended up losing her sight. Told by her doctors that there's nothing wrong with her eyes in them being perfectly normal it's obviously that Alsion's loss of sight has to do with her mind not wanting to see whatever she sees! That has to do with what Alison saw just before she fell and lost her sight five years ago! What she saw was so shocking that she not only forget what she saw but never wants, psychologically, to see again! See!
Married to successful businessman Eric Crawford, Curt Jurgens, Alison has settled into the life of a sightless person not really that interested in whats going on in the world until her kid sister-13 years her junior- Robin, Samanta Eggar, shows up at the Crawford's elegant flat in downtown London for a visit. Even though Alsion can't we could see that Robin and Eric have been lovers for some time in how they interact with each other during their time together at the Crawford flat. In fact Eric's good friend Paul, Ian Bannen, who's really got the hots for Robin and wants to marry her is rebuffed every time he tries to get It on with her in favor of Robin being "lovey Davy" with Eric!
Eric for his part is very uncomfortable with Robin being around the house in the unwanted advances she make at him with his wife Alision, Robin's sister, totally unaware of what happening between the two. It's when Eric and Robin together with Paul and the Crawford kids Jean & Susan, Shelley Crowhurst & Sandra Leo, go visit Grandma's country home that the shocking truth in what caused Alisons blindness comes dramatically to the surface! In her almost ending up with a brain concussion when she was hit by a runaway horse, that Robin was riding, in the garden.
***SPOILERS*** The big and shocking surprise ending in the film "Psyche 59" was so obvious that it shocked practically no one not even those in the films cast. The fact that anybody could see whats was going on between Eric & Robin with the exception of the blind Alison made the surprise ending a no brainier! By far the biggest and only surprise in the film was how Eric reacted, is wife's revelation about him and Robin, to it that totally psyched me out!
Alison Crawford, Patricia Neal, has been blind for five years since on that fatefully summer day in 1959-the year that the movie's title indicates-when she feel down a flight of stairs at Grandma's, Beatrix Lehmann, place in the country and ended up losing her sight. Told by her doctors that there's nothing wrong with her eyes in them being perfectly normal it's obviously that Alsion's loss of sight has to do with her mind not wanting to see whatever she sees! That has to do with what Alison saw just before she fell and lost her sight five years ago! What she saw was so shocking that she not only forget what she saw but never wants, psychologically, to see again! See!
Married to successful businessman Eric Crawford, Curt Jurgens, Alison has settled into the life of a sightless person not really that interested in whats going on in the world until her kid sister-13 years her junior- Robin, Samanta Eggar, shows up at the Crawford's elegant flat in downtown London for a visit. Even though Alsion can't we could see that Robin and Eric have been lovers for some time in how they interact with each other during their time together at the Crawford flat. In fact Eric's good friend Paul, Ian Bannen, who's really got the hots for Robin and wants to marry her is rebuffed every time he tries to get It on with her in favor of Robin being "lovey Davy" with Eric!
Eric for his part is very uncomfortable with Robin being around the house in the unwanted advances she make at him with his wife Alision, Robin's sister, totally unaware of what happening between the two. It's when Eric and Robin together with Paul and the Crawford kids Jean & Susan, Shelley Crowhurst & Sandra Leo, go visit Grandma's country home that the shocking truth in what caused Alisons blindness comes dramatically to the surface! In her almost ending up with a brain concussion when she was hit by a runaway horse, that Robin was riding, in the garden.
***SPOILERS*** The big and shocking surprise ending in the film "Psyche 59" was so obvious that it shocked practically no one not even those in the films cast. The fact that anybody could see whats was going on between Eric & Robin with the exception of the blind Alison made the surprise ending a no brainier! By far the biggest and only surprise in the film was how Eric reacted, is wife's revelation about him and Robin, to it that totally psyched me out!