Experiment Perilous

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Time Out says

A comparatively minor but characteristically elegant Tourneur costume melodrama-cum-psychological thriller in the vein of Rebec and Gaslight, this features Lamarr as the wife of a wealthy philanthropist; inevitably, she comes to fear not only for her own sanity, but also for that of her genuinely dangerous husband, a manic authoritarian patriarch whose violence is the product of a troubled, traumatic childhood. Equally inevitably, doctor/ detective Brent is there to save her and supply romantic interest, but Tourneur manages to overcome the formulaic plotting and cod-Freudian characterisations through carefully controlled performances and Tony Gaudio's fine camerawork.

Release Details

  • Duration:91 mins

Cast and crew

  • Director:Jacques Tourneur
  • Screenwriter:Warren Duff
  • Cast:
    • Hedy Lamarr
    • George Brent
    • Paul Lukas
    • Albert Dekker
    • Margaret Wycherly
    • Julia Dean
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