Thursday, October 2, 2014

Scared to Death (1947)


Screen Guild Productions
Directed by Christy Cabanne
My rating: 1.5 stars out of 4
IMDb
(Turner Classic Movies)

A dead woman tells the story of her past life, kept against her will in an institution. She is slowly being driven mad, seeing a mysterious figure in a blue mask who shows himself at the same window over and over again. Bela Lugosi, a magician, and his dwarf assistant show up for no real reason other than to include Bela Lugosi and a dwarf. The scene with Lugosi "baying at the moon" is hilarious. A bumbling cop, a sexist newspaper reporter and George Zucco as a mad doctor complete the cast. Stagy, boring and filmed in "Natural Color", consisting of a sickly brown and green hue.

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