noir Nightmare
Beset is a work that moves within the coordinates of film noir that manages to create a inquientante and unusual atmosphere, between the dreamlike, mysterious, bizarre, and paranoid. Based on a novel by Cornell Wooldrich (William Irish), Black phat of fear (1944), author known to many as the creator of the work that served as the basis for Alfred Hitchcock Rear Window (1955), and inspiration for other great directors like Robert Sidiomak, Roy William Neil and Jacques Torneur and got some intellectual prestige after Francois Truffaut adapt two of his works, in The bride wore black (1968) and The Mississippi Mermaid (1969).
address Hounded charged to the forgotten and prolific director and screenwriter who gets Athur Ripley develop a disturbing film with an air of nightmare reminiscent of other works in the genre black as Detour (1945) Edgar G. Ulmer or has night thousand eyes (1948) by John Farrow in which the real, dreamlike and fantasy combine to create a delirious and delusional.
The starting point of the film is simple but will gradually blurring. Chuck Scott (Robert Cummings) is a wallet lying in the street and decides to return it to its owner. This act of kindness will lead to its owner Eddie Roman (Steve Cochran) and his assistant, Gino (Peter Lorre), two gangster-tinged picópatas and claims, be hired as a driver. Threatening the sinister and present since Scott first entered the mansion, full of marble statues and disturbing shadows and gloomy amenanzantes that seem to hide something disturbing and frightening, and that is highlighted by the performances of Steve Cochran, Peter Lorre, to endow their characters in a inespresividad that seems to conceal or disguise a wicked personality. Scott will end up in love with the girlfriend Roman, Lorna (Michele Morgan), which he kept in a state of submission and dominance, so that the two devise a flight to Cuba.
When two lovers reach their destination and are created and saved, and able to give free rein to his love, Lorna Scott will be killed and señaldo responsible for his death. Scott began his journey in particular the police trying to prove his innocence, but everything seems against him. When Scott is about to get what exculpatory evidence, we realize that everything has been a dream of mind disturbed Chuck Scott exconvatiente in a war that seems to be suffering from a traumatic experience. But when Scott goes to Davison commander (Jack Holt) Army psychiatrist, a bar to tell his strange dream, Scott believes he has forgotten something important to do, we will then enter the door to Gino and Eddie Roman, Scott recovers memory and remembers That night has prepared his escape with Lorna to Cuba.
as spectators is when we determine that the entire first half was a mix of reality, dream and premonition result of the unstable mind of Scott, but the main trick to play the film is the dissolution and osmosis between these two boundaries, because what at first seems completely unreal and extravagant, as the accelerator pedal Eddie Roman takes seat back of his car, reappears again. And this is without doubt one of the successes with playing this picturesque black ribbon which is influenced by the psychoanalytic trend that appeared in Hollywood in the 40's and that both Fritz Lang (The Woman in the Window 1944), Jacques Torneur ( Leopard Man, 1943) and Alfred Hitchcock ( Remember , 1945) were able to take advantage.
When two lovers reach its destination unscathed porphine after Gino Eddie and crash your car, we conclude that when our dreams have been fulfilled is when we understand the richness of our imagination and reality poverty.
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