Cinema Rediscovered: Obsession
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Edward Dmytryk brought his experience making US noirs to UK shores, resulting in an astonishingly dark and unsettling picture.
Robert Newton stars as a psychiatrist who discovers his wife is having an affair. He resolves to take revenge by kidnapping and murdering her lover and then dissolving his corpse in a bath of acid.
One of the Hollywood Ten, famously blacklisted for refusing to testify before the House Un-American Activities Committee, Edward Dmytryk spent his exile in England, where he made extraordinary features, including Obsession.
Written by Alec Coppel, who would later co-write Vertigo, and scored by the great Italian composer Nino Rota (8½, The Godfather), Obsession’s release was originally delayed due to the ongoing court case of the real-life ‘Acid Bath Murderer’, John Haigh.
Part of Cinema Rediscovered on Tour.
Robert Newton stars as a psychiatrist who discovers his wife is having an affair. He resolves to take revenge by kidnapping and murdering her lover and then dissolving his corpse in a bath of acid.
One of the Hollywood Ten, famously blacklisted for refusing to testify before the House Un-American Activities Committee, Edward Dmytryk spent his exile in England, where he made extraordinary features, including Obsession.
Written by Alec Coppel, who would later co-write Vertigo, and scored by the great Italian composer Nino Rota (8½, The Godfather), Obsession’s release was originally delayed due to the ongoing court case of the real-life ‘Acid Bath Murderer’, John Haigh.
Part of Cinema Rediscovered on Tour.
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