Critic Reviews
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Dave Kehr, Chicago Reader
Nicholas Musaraca's excellent cinematography contributes a number of fine effects, and there's a strange and witty aside on the invention of movies.
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Bosley Crowther, New York Times
While the film has a tendency to wander into unadulterated Hollywoodisms in spots, it is a generally straight-forward and imaginative estimate of a two-century-old sociological theme.
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Walter Chaw, Film Freak Central
Lewton had something to say. Perhaps inevitably, he found less interesting ways of saying it over the course of nine films in a short four years.
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Fernando F. Croce, CinePassion
The feminist-political fable is couched in absorbing grey zones
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, TV Guide's Movie Guide
Another strong chiller from brilliant producer Val Lewton.
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Cast
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Boris Karloffas Master George Sims -
Anna Leeas Neil Rowen -
Billy Houseas Lord Mortimer
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Glenn Vernonas The Gilded Boy -
Jason Robards Sr.as Oliver Todd -
Joan Newtonas Dorothea
