Strange Illusion (1945) (original) (raw)
In one of the most hallucinatory openings of 1940's movies, a boy's dead father comes to him in a dream, warning him to beware of the man his mother intends to remarry. The boy, Paul Cartwright wakes up from the dream, but finds it's coming true when he learns his mother has been dating a slick charmer named Brett Curtis. Paul suspects Brett's a murderer, but his mom and sister are too smitten to listen. It's HAMLET, American-style, as Paul gathers evidence with a can-do teen spirit the tortured Dane could never quite muster. Edgar G. Ulmer's STRANGE ILLUSION is poverty row poetry of the ...(more)
In one of the most hallucinatory openings of 1940's movies, a boy's dead father comes to him in a dream, warning him to beware of the man his mother intends to remarry. The boy, Paul Cartwright wakes up from the dream, but finds it's coming true when he learns his mother has been dating a slick charmer named Brett Curtis. Paul suspects Brett's a murderer, but his mom and sister are too smitten to listen. It's HAMLET, American-style, as Paul gathers evidence with a can-do teen spirit the tortured Dane could never quite muster. Edgar G. Ulmer's STRANGE ILLUSION is poverty row poetry of the first order. It's the only movie ever made that begins and ends in a dream sequence...! (less)
Director: Edgar G. Ulmer
Writers: Fritz Rotter, Adele Comandini
Starring: Jimmy Lydon, Sally Eilers, Warren William, Regis Toomey, Charles Arnt, George Reed
Producer: Leon Fromkess
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