Cast a Dark Shadow

Cast a Dark Shadow

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  • Genre: Thriller
  • Release Date: 1955-09-20
  • Runtime: 83 minutes
  • : 6.3
  • Production Company: Angel Productions
  • Production Country: United Kingdom
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6.3/10
6.3
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Description

Edward "Teddy" Bare is a ruthless schemer who thinks he's hit the big time when he kills his older wife, believing he will inherit a fortune. When things don't go according to plan, Teddy sets his sights on a new victim: wealthy widow Freda Jeffries. Unfortunately for the unscrupulous criminal, Freda is much more guarded and sassy than his last wife, making separating her from her money considerably more challenging.

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  • CinemaSerf

    7
    By CinemaSerf
    This is a smashing piece of cinema with Kay Walsh ("Charlotte"); Margaret Lockwood ("Freda Jeffries") and Kathleen Harrison ("Emmie") all on great form as the women involved in the machinations of the manipulative, murderous Dirk Bogarde "Edward Bare". When his elderly, wealthy, wife (Mona Washbourne) unexpectedly dies, he is disappointed to learn from her rather sceptical lawyer "Philip Mortimer" (Robert Flemyng) that the will doesn't provide quite as well for him as he had hoped - so he sets about finding a successor - and he alights on the streetwise "Freda" who makes it quite clear that what's her's is, well, staying her's - even after they marry... Not quite content with that arrangement, he decides that she might just have to have an accident, too. At this point, a stranger - "Charlotte" - arrives on the scene, ostensibly looking to buy a house and our mystery starts to unfold. Bogarde is on top form, and Lewis Gilbert manages to cleverly intertwine the characters whilst building a gentle sense of menace that runs pretty much to the end (though I found that a little bit flawed). Good stuff.

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