Ida Lupino is cheerless and intense in this. It’s rather odd. But Louis Hayward is very charming, and the whole thing manages to work despite not being able to transcend its theatrical roots. The trouble with Ladies in Retirement, though, is that it is neither mysterious nor scary. We know who is doing what at every point, and because the film is from neither Lupino's point of view nor Hayward's, we are never really confused or puzzling over anything. We know exactly what has happened and can easily predict what is going to happen. All of this made Ladies in Retirement rather boring, if I'm honest.
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