The gentle-voiced madman Laird Cregar, Darnell shot by LaShelle, Herrmann score (clearly pre-shadowing Vertigo in a couple of passages) - what more could you want as your late night movie?
Brahm opens in a Hitchcockian manner sweeping his camera up from street into first floor window and a murder, and follows this with all manner of weird angles, distorted lenses, and textures up until fiery finale where Cregar so much wants to hear the end of his concerto he plays himself to a fiery death - in a scene which doesn't look tricked, and therefore must have been quite dangerous.
Barré Lyndon's screenplay (from Patrick Hamilton novel) has a few grim jokes.
Also stars George Sanders, Alan Napier, Faye Marlowe, Glenn Langan, for Fox.
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