Tockinit not horrible nor great

Twilightfa Watch something else. There are very few redeeming qualities to this film.

Hayleigh Joseph This is ultimately a movie about the very bad things that can happen when we don't address our unease, when we just try to brush it off, whether that's to fit in or to preserve our self-image.

Bob This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

MartinHafer When the story begins, Sheila Page (Joan Lesley) has just killed her husband, Barney (Louis Hayward), and she is naturally very distraught. She wishes she hadn't done it and wishes she had the last year to do over again...and miraculously that's what happens next. Now Sheila has a chance to do things differently, though repeatedly whatever she did to avoid this fate, it ends up happening the same way anyway. To make things worse, Sheila doesn't seem to have learned a lot by getting her second chance! There just seems to be a horrible sense that fate is inescapable.As I watched the Pages going through that year ago, I kept thinking that I, too, would have shot Barney! He was the worst of husbands...and I thought that if he came back to life and Sheila had the year to live over, she would have divorced him. After all, he was an alcoholic, a cheater and a nasty guy down deep...and he only gets worse as the film progresses.Overall, it's a very unusual plot but some of the wonderfulness of this is lost because the character, Sheila, was so dopey and seemed to learn nothing by having the year to do again. Worth seeing but frustrating at times because you can't tell if it's all about fate...or Sheila just being a very, very slow learner.

Leofwine_draca REPEAT PERFORMANCE is a quirky little film noir/mystery with a female lead. The plot is a variant on that old-time favourite in which a character goes back in time and has a chance to live her life again, hopefully learning from her past mistakes along the way. As it turns out, this version of the tale is quite staid and boring at times, feeling a little flabby in of pace when it should be tauter and more suspenseful. The heroine, played well by Joan Leslie, seems to take a heck of a lot of time to figure out what's going on, and as such feels more than a little dim. The rest is watchable, if no classic.

tarwaterthomas The first time I watched REPEAT PERFORMANCE was on Nickolodeon in the late 1980s, circa 1987-1988, when the cable channel was still showing old movies in the wee hours of the morning. I was caught up in the trials and tribulations of glamorous actress Sheila Page (Joan Leslie) who shoots her philandering horndog of a husband (Louis Hayward) in a fit of ionate rage on New Year's Eve and hears police sirens off in the distance, and wishes that she could live the past year all over again. She does. Will Sheila shoot her husband again? You'll have to find out for yourself. I can't spoil it for you. I can say this, however: REPEAT PERFORMANCE was one of the first movies put out by Eagle-Lion Films after the name change from Producers Releasing Corporation; it had been purchased by the J. Arthur Rank Organisation based in England with the purpose of making bigger-budgeted films. I had this movie on tape, taped over it for some unknown reason, and now it's hard to find. Darn. Anyway, fine movie. Ahhh, one more thing: Joan Leslie made a cameo appearance in the television remake TURN BACK THE CLOCK (1989) with Connie Sellecca and William Russ.

eneguesidda This movie was featured on A&E Network numerous times around 1986-87. It was an excellent print and I was led by it to believe that it was on videocassette. Nik at nite also featured it numerous times during the same period. Unlike other subscribers I felt that Joan Leslie's per- formance was a little hammy and saccharine. Richard Basehart gave an interesting performance. Also interesting to see Natalie Schaefer from Gilligans Island. Eagle-Lion was an interesting "b" studio, and produced some films of real quality and memorableness. When I say this, I am especially thinking of "Hollow Triumph(the SCAR). Very interesting performance by Joan Bennett.