Experiment Perilous is a 1944 melodrama/film noir set at the turn of the century. The film is based on a novel by Margaret Carpenter and directed by Jacques Tourneur. The film is reminiscent of many movie melodramas, in particular Gaslight, made in England in 1939 and remade in the U.S. in 1944. The film was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Art Direction-Interior Decoration, Black-and-White (Albert S. D'Agostino, Jack Okey, Darrell Silvera...
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Experiment Perilous is a 1944 melodrama/film noir set at the turn of the century. The film is based on a novel by Margaret Carpenter and directed by Jacques Tourneur. The film is reminiscent of many movie melodramas, in particular Gaslight, made in England in 1939 and remade in the U.S. in 1944. The film was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Art Direction-Interior Decoration, Black-and-White (Albert S. D'Agostino, Jack Okey, Darrell Silvera, Claude E. Carpenter). Hedy Lamarr's singing voice was dubbed by Paula Raymond.
In 1903, Doctor Huntington Bailey (Brent) meets a friendly older lady in train. She tells him that she is going to visit her brother Nick and his lovely young wife Allida. In New York Bailey hears that his train companion suddenly died. Shortly afterward, he meets the strange couple and gets suspicious of Nick's treatment of his wife. Nick keeps Allida, who he is trying to pass off as crazy, a virtual prisoner in their London town house, cutting off all contact...
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