'Undercurrent' is one of those films that grips you immediatly, lets you go and then grabs you again.
Some parts really had me on the edge of my seat and others had me snorting in laughter. Katherine Hepburn has a tendency to totally overract in some of her films and it was quite apparent in this as she manically ran around with wide eyes and clenched fists flinching everytime Robert Taylor said anything.
The story could rival 'Rebecca' in many ways, except this time, the focus of obsession is a missing/presumed dead brother, instead of a first wife. Geeky, plain Hepburn ,meets charming and handsome Taylor and they have a whirlwind romance ending in marriage. Before long however, Hepburn finds out that Taylor has a brother that she has never heard of. This sets the tone for a weird series of events that unravel as she tries to figure out the mystery surrounding a man that no one will talk about, that no one knows the whereabouts of, and that certain people believe has been murdered.. by her new husband.
Taylor is brilliant, and Mitchum puts in a very good appearance in the limited screen time he is given. Hepburn is good but tends to be a bit much after a while.
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