| THE
HIDDEN ROOM
Blacklisted in Hollywood, director Edward
Dmytryk managed to find work in England.
Dmytryk’s Hidden Room is based on
Alec Coppel’s suspense play A Man
About a Dog. Ignoring such niceties as
subtlety and restraint, Robert Newton
stars as Dr. Clive Riordan, the insanely
jealous husband of Storm Riordan (Sally
Gray). Not content with merely murdering
Storm’s American lover Bill Kronin
(Phil Brown), Riordan chains up the poor
fellow in a deserted building. His reasoning:
should the police accuse Riordan of Kronin’s
murder, the doctor can always produce
the live victim, who is blindfolded and
has no idea who his captor is. Once the
investigation into the man’s disappearance
has subsided, Riordan intends to kill
his victim and dispose of the body in
an acid bath (something like this actually
did take place in London in the postwar
years). But the doctor is unaware that
his wife’s pet dog has also been
locked up with the helpless Kronin. The
Hiddn Room was released in the U.K.. as
Obsession.
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