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Victorian Thrillers of the 1930s and 1940s

10.10.20 | Constance Metzinger | Tags: Alan Marshall, Albert Lewin, Anton Walbrook, Basil Rathbone, Charles Boyer, Diana Wynard, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Fredric March, Gaslight, Ida Lupino, Ingrid Bergman, Joseph Cotten, Laird Cregar, Nigel Bruce, Oscar Wilde, Peter Lawford, Robert Montgomery, Spencer Tracy, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, Victor Fleming | 5 comments

Victorian London, steeped in a dark and romantic aura, has always been the ideal setting for murders and mysteries in films of the 1930s and 40s. Lurking beneath the white facade of stately manors inhabited by fashionable ladies and gentlemen…

Gaslight: Madness Comes from Above

03.21.20 | Jim Brymer | Tags: Angela Lansbury, Charles Boyer, Gaslight, Ingrid Bergman, Joseph Cotten | 2 comments

The scene is Grauman’s Chinese Theater. It is the 1945 Academy Awards presentation. Leo McCarey, et. al are running away with the statuettes, nearly sweeping every category for which the film was nominated. (Much to the dismay of Billy Wilder,…