2012-08-12

Public domain film noir: Strange Illusion (1945)

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Director: Edgar G. Ulmer
Writer: Fritz Rotter (story), Adele Comandini (screenplay)
Cinematographer: Philip Tannura, Benjamin H. Kline, Eugen Schüfftan



Plot: An idea taken from Hamlet: teenager Jimmy Lydon is tormented by nightmares in which his deceased father warns him about Mom's new boyfriend. Jimmy feigns madness to infiltrate a mental hospital where he suspects the answers lie.

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