Obsession ( The Hidden Room )

Obsession (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: The Hidden Room
Language Selections:
English ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )

Product Origin/Format:
United Kingdom ( PAL/Region 0 )

Running Time:
91 min

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

Special Features:
Biographies
Interactive Menu
Black & White

Movie filmed in 1949 and produced in:
United Kingdom ( Great Britain, Ireland )

Directed By:
Edward Dmytryk

Written By:
Alec Coppel

Actors:
Robert Newton ..... Dr. Clive Riordan
Phil Brown ..... Bill Kronin
Sally Gray ..... Storm Riordan
Naunton Wayne ..... Supt. Finsbury
James Harcourt ..... Aitkin (butler)
Betty Cooper ..... Miss Stevens (receptionist)
Michael Balfour ..... American sailor
Ronald Adam ..... Clubman
Roddy Hughes ..... Clubman
Allan Jeayes ..... Clubman
Olga Lindo ..... Mrs. Humphries
Russell Waters ..... Flying Squad detective
Lyonel Watts ..... Clubman (as Lionel Watts)

Synopsis:

Blacklisted in Hollywood, director Edward Dmytryk managed to find work in England. Dmytryk's Obsession is based on Alec Coppel's suspense play A Man About a Dog. Ignoring such niceties as subtlety and restraint, Robert Newton stars as Dr. Clive Riordan, the insanely jealous husband of Storm Riordan (Sally Gray). Not content with merely murdering Storm's American lover Bill Kronin (Phil Brown), Riordan chains up the poor fellow in a deserted building. His reasoning: should the police accuse Riordan of Kronin's murder, the doctor can always produce the live victim, who is blindfolded and has no idea who his captor is. Once the investigation into the man's disappearance has subsided, Riordan intends to kill his victim and dispose of the body in an acid bath (something like this actually did take place in London in the postwar years). But the doctor is unaware that his wife's pet dog has also been locked up with the helpless Kronin. Obsession was released in the U.S. as The Hidden Room.

Melodrama of a jealous husband who discovers his wife's infidelity and keeps the lover in a cellar planning to murder him, but the plot is discovered in time. Based on Alec Coppel's novel `A Man About a Dog'.

This product was added to our catalog on Friday 20 April, 2007.

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