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Strange Illusion

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Strange Illusion
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NR,1hr 27min
Genre:
Action
Released:
January 1, 1945
Director:
Edgar G. Ulmer
Distributor:
Roan Archival Group
Starring:
Charles Arnt, Jameson Clark, Sally Eilers  ...more
Synopsis: Strange Illusion is really several movies in one, part dark psychological chiller, part unsettling murder mystery, and part breezy B-movie thriller, although most of its plot is derived from Shakespeare's Hamlet. Jimmy Lydon, best-known to audiences for his screen portrayal of Henry Aldrich during the early '40s, plays Paul Cartwright, the son of a respected judge who died under mysterious circumstances two years earlier. Paul is haunted by nightmares in which his father warns him of danger to his ... Full Synopsis
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Bruce Eder, AMG Review
Strange Illusion is one of the most enchantingly bizarre and thoroughly enjoyable examples of film noir ever to come out of the celebrated "B" studio PRC, as well as being one of the most unsettling psychological thrillers of its era. Director Edgar G. Ulmer had become fascinated with the subject of psychology in the mid-'40s when he decided to make this movie, intended initially as an adaptation of ... Full Review
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