Nicholas Musaraca's excellent cinematography contributes a number of fine effects, and there's a strange and witty aside on the invention of movies.
Bedlam
Beauty at the mercy of madmen!
1946 · 1h 16m · Approved
Drama, Thriller
Directed by
Mark Robson
Overview
London, 1761. St. Mary's of Bethlehem, a sinister madhouse, is visited by wealthy people who enjoy watching the patients confined there as if they were caged animals. Nell Bowen, one of the visitors, is horrified by the deplorable living conditions of the unfortunate inhabitants of this godforsaken place, better known as Bedlam.
Director and cast
- Mark Robson Director
- Boris Karloff as Master George Sims
- Anna Lee as Nell Bowen
- Billy House as Lord Mortimer
- Richard Fraser as The Stonemason
- Glen Vernon as The Gilded Boy
- Ian Wolfe as Sidney Long
- Jason Robards Sr. as Oliver Todd
- Leyland Hodgson as John Wilkes
- Joan Newton Cast
- Elizabeth Russell Cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
While the film has a tendency to wander into unadulterated Hollywoodisms in spots, it is a generally straight-forward and imaginative estimate of a two-century-old sociological theme.
Robson's notably unpoetic direction doesn't help, either; yet few Hollywood films ever had such ambition.
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