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| Released: |
1946 |
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HORROR
THRILLER
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| Origin: |
US |
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| Colour: |
BW |
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| Length: |
83 |
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PRO Reviews
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| | A shocker, plain and simple. | | | | (New York Times) | | The most gripping, spellbinding and intensely thrilling motion picture seen in many, many years. | | | | (Hollywood Review) | | Mood and pace are well set, and story grips throughout. | | | | (Variety) | | A nice, cosy and well-sustained atmosphere of horror. | | | | (C.A. Lejeune, Observer) | | A film on the conventional theme of the schizophrenic killer, lifted out of its class by the imaginative quality of its visual design as well as its playing. The murderer feels impelled to destroy what is imperfect: he sees the heroine, who is dumb, as a creature without a mouth; and the audience too, looking over his shoulder at the girl's image in the mirror, sees her face fading away into a blur. | | | | (Dilys Powell, Sunday Times) | | This little horror classic... has all the trappings of the genre—a stormy night and a collection of psychopaths. But the psychopaths are quite presentable people, and this, plus the skillful, swift direction, makes the terror convincing. | | | (Pauline Kael, New Yorker, long after release) | |
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, George Brent•, Kent Smith
, from Ethel Lina’s novel Some Must Watch
