Event Details
A London psychiatrist (Robert Newton, Around the World in 80 Days, 1956) smuggles acid from work daily to a blitzed building, with the aim of killing and dissolving the body of his wife’s American lover (Phil Brown, best known as Uncle Owen in Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope, 1977). Featuring a stirring score by Italian composer Nino Rota (The Godfather, 1972), this slow-burn relationship drama turns into a thrilling game of cat-and-mouse once Scotland Yard sets its sights on the missing American. Feverishly directed by blacklisted, Oscar-nominated Edward Dmytryk (Crossfire, 1947), this story is truly where Kafka meets film noir.
Academy Museum film programming generously funded by the Richard Roth Foundation.
1949 | 96 min. | UK | Black-and-White | English | Not Rated | DCP
DIRECTED BY: Edward Dmytryk
WRITTEN/BASED ON A NOVEL BY: Alec Coppel
WITH: Robert Newton, Sally Gray, Naunton Wayne, Phil Brown