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Obsession (1949)

Thriller | 96 minutes
3,54 37 votes

Genre: Thriller

Duration: 96 minuten

Alternative title: The Hidden Room

Country: United Kingdom

Directed by: Edward Dmytryk

Stars: Robert Newton, Phil Brown and Sally Gray

IMDb score: 7,3 (3.351)

Releasedate: 3 August 1949

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Obsession plot

"Hidden love! Hidden hate! Hidden fear!"

When London psychiatrist Clive Riordan notices that his wife is cheating on him, he decides to kidnap her boyfriend, Bill Kronin. To the outside world it looks like he has disappeared without a trace, but Riordan keeps him alive in an underground chamber until the case is forgotten. Problems arise, however, when his wife's dog continues to roam around the entrance of the room.

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Dr. Clive Riordan

Bill Kronin

Storm Riordan

Supt. Finsbury

Aitkin (butler)

Miss Stevens (receptionist)

The Colonel, blustery club member

Talkative, balding club member

Bespectacled third club member, from Whitehall

Mrs. Humphries

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Robert Newton plays Clive, a man who thinks he can avenge his much younger wife's [Ellie Gray] affair with Bill [Phil Brown] with surprisingly subdued effectiveness. He sets his ingenious plan in motion—using a secret room in the house—and doesn't expect Scotland Yard's Superintendent Finsbury [Naunton Wayne] to stand in his way.

The large amount of dialogue sometimes slows the film's pace a bit, but the acting is excellent, especially when the sardonic Newton and the equally stiff and stubborn Wayne cross swords 'like gentlemen'.

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