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Experiment Perilous

film by Tourneur [1944]
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  • lobby card for The Comedy of Terrors
    Jacques Tourneur
    / Films of the 1940s at RKO: Cat People, I Walked with a Zombie, and Out of the Past

    Experiment Perilous (1944) was a gothic thriller set in 1903 New York featuring Hedy Lamarr; it provided Tourneur with plentiful opportunities to demonstrate his mastery of shadowy menace. He then was loaned to Universal to direct Canyon Passage (1946), a western starring Dana Andrews and…

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    Experiment Perilous (1944) was a gothic thriller set in 1903 New York featuring Hedy Lamarr; it provided Tourneur with plentiful opportunities to demonstrate his mastery of shadowy menace. He then was loaned to Universal to direct Canyon Passage (1946), a western starring Dana Andrews and…

    Read More