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Phantom Lady

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Phantom Lady (1944)

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Reviews Counted:5

Fresh:5

Rotten:0

Average Rating:7.2/10

Rated: Not Rated

Runtime: 87 mins

Genre: Dramas

Synopsis: This tightly directed noir suspense thriller follows an innocent man blamed for the murder of his wife and unable to find the woman with whom he passed the evening in question. When he's... This tightly directed noir suspense thriller follows an innocent man blamed for the murder of his wife and unable to find the woman with whom he passed the evening in question. When he's imprisoned, his secretary ventures into a dark world to save him. [More]

Starring: Franchot Tone, Ella Raines, Alan Curtis, Fay Helm

Starring: Franchot Tone, Ella Raines, Alan Curtis, Fay Helm, Elisha Cook, Andrew Tombes, Regis Toomey, Joseph Crehan, Doris Lloyd, Virginia Brissac, Milburn Stone, Thomas Gomez

Director: Robert Siodmak

Director: Robert Siodmak
Screenwriter: Cornell Woolrich
Composer: Hans J. Salter
Producer: Joan Harrison
Screenwriter: Bernard C. Schoenfeld

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Apr 14, 1998

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Brilliantly stylized crime thriller.

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Superior, stylish thriller marred by an obvious and over-the-top "mystery" killer

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Bosley Crowther
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The Phantom Lady proved to be a boon to the German-born director Robert Siodmak's career.

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Channeling the spirit of the Russians (Eisenstein, Dovshenko, Vertov), the director uses grotesque angles, close-ups, and rhythms to suggest a powerful sense of seduction and torture.

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