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Gripping and intricately designed. Jul 6, 2010 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…
Gripping and intricately designed.
Peter Bradshaw
Opulence of Imperial Russia at the beginning of the 19th century provides a colorful background for this filmization of Alexander Pushkin's short story, which brings to the screen a legend of gambling and intrigue. Mar 26, 2009 | Full Review…
Opulence of Imperial Russia at the beginning of the 19th century provides a colorful background for this filmization of Alexander Pushkin's short story, which brings to the screen a legend of gambling and intrigue.
Variety Staff
Wild gypsy dancing, shadow lighting and an excellent musical score are well used for mood creation in this weirdly fascinating film. May 6, 2008 | Full Review…
Wild gypsy dancing, shadow lighting and an excellent musical score are well used for mood creation in this weirdly fascinating film.
Bosley Crowther
Pushkin's marvellously histrionic tale of cupidity and terrible vengeance gets a suitably wild-eyed treatment in Thorold Dickinson's 1949 film. Feb 9, 2006 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…
Pushkin's marvellously histrionic tale of cupidity and terrible vengeance gets a suitably wild-eyed treatment in Thorold Dickinson's 1949 film.
Nina Caplan
... full of big ideas and grand feelings along with the psychological intrigue and hint of the supernatural that give this film a special edge. Oct 19, 2019 | Rating: 8/10 | Full Review…
... full of big ideas and grand feelings along with the psychological intrigue and hint of the supernatural that give this film a special edge.
Sarah Boslaugh
The Queen of Spades, a stylish, polished melodrama based on the Pushkin novella, is [Thorold Dickinson's] most accomplished film. Oct 18, 2016 | Full Review…
The Queen of Spades, a stylish, polished melodrama based on the Pushkin novella, is [Thorold Dickinson's] most accomplished film.
Philip French
Otto Heller's chiaroscuro cinematography and Oliver Messel's Gothic designs play vital roles in Dickinson's thorough demolition of period genteelness for the horror in it. Oct 18, 2016 | Full Review…
Otto Heller's chiaroscuro cinematography and Oliver Messel's Gothic designs play vital roles in Dickinson's thorough demolition of period genteelness for the horror in it.
Fernando F. Croce
The Queen of Spades is a treasured relic of a time when the British cinema momentarily abandoned its good manners and revelled gloriously in visual and emotional excess. Oct 18, 2016 | Full Review…
The Queen of Spades is a treasured relic of a time when the British cinema momentarily abandoned its good manners and revelled gloriously in visual and emotional excess.
Sheila Johnston
Though it does not run as smoothly as other films directed by Thorold Dickinson, it is an outstanding and worthwhile production. Oct 18, 2016 | Full Review…
Though it does not run as smoothly as other films directed by Thorold Dickinson, it is an outstanding and worthwhile production.
MFB Critics
The story develops a morbidly exciting grip thanks to the maniacally superstitious Walbrook and Evans's otherworldly chill -- the funeral scene alone will make you jump. Oct 18, 2016 | Full Review…
The story develops a morbidly exciting grip thanks to the maniacally superstitious Walbrook and Evans's otherworldly chill -- the funeral scene alone will make you jump.
Anthony Quinn
I regret to say I think it is more of a curio than a classic. Oct 18, 2016 | Full Review…
I regret to say I think it is more of a curio than a classic.
Peter Momtchiloff
It's beautifully lit and photographed, capturing the decadence of old St Petersburg before the Napoleonic Wars, and creates a wonderful atmosphere of tension in its depiction of a Faustian pact. Oct 18, 2016 | Rating: 4.5/5 | Full Review…
It's beautifully lit and photographed, capturing the decadence of old St Petersburg before the Napoleonic Wars, and creates a wonderful atmosphere of tension in its depiction of a Faustian pact.
Coco Forsythe
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