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Tuesday, 16 April 2024

Cast A Dark Shadow (1955)



Well, you pretty much have to watch this 1955 thriller play adaptation - the play is called Murder Mistaken - not just for a well-delivered surprise towards the end but also for the jaw-dropping endscenes in which one particular female character stands up to a killer in a terrifying shouting match that I think is unprecedented in its melodrama - the only similar scene I can think of is Sigourney Weaver's Helen Hudson inviting a crazed serial killer to put up his dukes in that rooftop scene in Copycat

★★★☆☆

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Monday, 12 August 2013

The Lady Vanishes (1938)


A favourite film of mine, Hitchcock's  The Lady Vanishes is a rollicking comedy thriller in which a woman on a transEuropean train journey awakens to discover her elderly travelling companion, Miss Froy, has inexplicably disappeared.

★★★★★

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