With this cast and Vincent Minelli directing you might reasonably expect a professional product but you are not going to get one. Hepburn is said to have accused Mitchum of getting the part solely because of his looks because he could not act. If so she was right but beware you who live in glass houses. Hepburn was equally awful and Robert Taylor was decidedly mediocre. Marjorie Main is the one highlight and she is gone after the first 15 minutes or so. The biggest problem however is the totally unbelievable plot. Edmund Gwenn is a scientist living with daughter/assistant (Hepburn) in a home, with adjoining laboratory, run by Marjorie Main. Robert Taylor plays an Elon Musk type, a 40 year old multi-millionaire bachelor, who is trying to win the rights to one of Gwenn's products. He comes to the Gwenn home and is immediately smitten with Hepburn and they marry shortly thereafter and then it gets bad, really bad. Horrible dialogue combined with a preposterous plot, miscast actors and obvious foreshadowing make for one long and tedious movie. There is a reason you have never heard of this one. It is awful.
Review of Undercurrent
