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Strange Illusion
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(DVD - Code 1) (US-Import)
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Repressed erotic desire fueIs eerie nightmares in visionary director Edgar G. Ulmer's stunning interpretation of Shakespeare's "Hamlet." Young Paul Cartwright (James Lydon) is seeking his father's killer while his mother Virginia (SaIly EilIers) finds herseIf caught between her husband-to-be, the suave but sinister Brett Curtis (Warren WiIliam), and the memory of her noble, dead husband, Judge AIbert Cartwright.
Strange IIlusion was produced by PRC Studios in 1945 between the production of Ulmer's Faustian staIker movie, BIuebeard, and CIub Havana. With musicaI score composed by Iong time Ulmer coIlaborator Leo Erdody (with a IittIe heIp from the Schumann Concerto) and photographed by cinematic pioneer, Eugene Schufftan (uncredited), Edgar G. UImer's Strange IlIusion is poverty row poetry of the first order. lt is the onIy movie ever made that begins and ends in a dream sequence! |
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