Question #1: Your 17 year old daughter is in love with an older man. When she goes to meet him at your boathouse, there's an accident and the next morning, you find him dead on the beach. Do you protect your little girl by roping the stiff to the back of your motorboat, giving him an anchor necktie, heading for open water and tossing him overboard? Question #2: When a surly Irishman turns up with a sheaf of your daughter's love letters to the late Lothario and offers to sell them to you -- or send them to the newspapers -- do you hock everything you own in a desperate attempt to raise the blackmail? Question #3: As a Columbia Pictures exec, when you're told this claptrap would make a great starring vehicle for Joan Bennett and James Mason, do you politely decline or line up the stars and film the hokum? Question #4: And this is the most puzzling of them all -- how come so many IMDb contributors consider "The Reckless Moment" a minor masterpiece? Okay, Mason turns in a stunning performance, as always. But you'd probably say the same thing if he simply read the phone book. And that might actually make more sense than this story.
Review of The Reckless Moment
