The Hidden Room
Oct. 13th, 2024 07:52 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
poliphilo YouTube inserted a movie called The Hidden Room into my feed. Never heard of it. But the title was irresistible because If something is hidden I dearly want to find it. The Hidden Room is a British movie, directed by Edward Dmytryk- on the run from a prison sentence after being brutalised by the HUAC. It stars Robert Newton- with his unfathomably dark eyes- playing it svelte ansd straight. The Hidden Room is the US title. The British title is Obsession which isn't half as good. The screenplay is by Alec Coppel from his own play and novel. Coppel also wrote the screenplay for Hitchcock's Vertigo.
Supporting players are Sally Gray- once the "British Ginger Rogers" and later an Irish peeress- and Naunton Wayne- best remembered as one half of the pair of cricket-obsessed twits in The Lady Vanishes. Here he's the admirably laid-back police inspector. The year is 1949, the place London and the hidden room is accessed via a bomb site.
Newton is going to commit the perfect murder- and it's worth one and a half hours of anybody's time to find out if he manages to pull it off.
Supporting players are Sally Gray- once the "British Ginger Rogers" and later an Irish peeress- and Naunton Wayne- best remembered as one half of the pair of cricket-obsessed twits in The Lady Vanishes. Here he's the admirably laid-back police inspector. The year is 1949, the place London and the hidden room is accessed via a bomb site.
Newton is going to commit the perfect murder- and it's worth one and a half hours of anybody's time to find out if he manages to pull it off.
