All screenings are at Rialto Cinemas on Monday nights at 6:30pm
Mon 2 March:Screening: Monday 20 July, 6:30pm
George Cukor | USA | 1944 | PG cert
Lusher than the 1939 British version of Patrick Hamilton’s moody period melodrama, which had a surer sense of background (in particular the English class thing, trailing an inbred distrust of the smarmy foreigner). Directed with consummate skill, all the same, as Cukor plants an indefinable sense of unease during the sunnily romantic Italian honeymoon (a lengthy addition to this version), then gradually orchestrates it into a genuinely harrowing crescendo of terror in the claustrophobically cluttered house in fogbound London where the husband is methodically driving his wife insane. One of Ingrid Bergman’s best performances with Charles Boyer not too far behind, and Angela Lansbury unforgettable as the sulkily insolent parlourmaid whom the husband cunningly uses to add insult to injury. — Tom Milne, Time Out
(114 minutes, 16mm)
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