Bluebeard
The most sinister love story ever told!
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DVD Details
- Run Time: 1 hours, 10 minutes
- Video: Black & White
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Originally Released: 1944
- Label: Allday Entertainment
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | John Carradine, Jean Parker & Nils Asther | |
Performer: | Ludwig Stössel, George Pembroke, Henry Kolker, Iris Adrian & Emmett Lynn | |
Directed by | Edgar G. Ulmer | |
Edited by | Carl Pierson | |
Screenplay by | Pierre Gendron | |
Composition by | Leo Erdody | |
Art Direction by | Paul Palmentola | |
Produced by | Leon Fromkess | |
Director of Photography: | Jockey A. Feindel |
Entertainment Reviews:
Edgar G. Ulmer somehow managed to transform the absurd limitations of the scripts, budgets, and actors he was given to work with into a mad aesthetic principle.
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Chicago Reader
Rating: A --
It's prolific actor John Carradine's first starring role in a horror film and his own favorite performance.
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Ozus' World Movie Reviews
A breathtakingly self-reflexive portrait
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CinePassion
Ulmer (Murnau's one time art director and assistant) is the most subterranean of all directors, and here turns out a triumph of mind, eye and talent.
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Time Out
Ulmer's third masterpiece, after The Black Cat (1934) and Detour (1945); it's one of his few films that overcame its wretched budget.
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Combustible Celluloid
Rating: 4/5 --
Really good Ulmer film marred by an atrocious musical score
Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)
Rating: 3/5 --
Interessante versão da história de Barba-Azul, desta vez com um Carradine atipicamente contido e, conseqüentemente, muito eficaz.
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Product Description:
In 19th century Paris, someone is murdering young women and dumping their bodies into the Seine. That someone is Gaston (John Carradine), a handsome, brooding painter and puppeteer who strangles his models with a black tie. Jean Parker plays Lucille, a dressmaker who finds herself drawn to Gaston's tortured soul after she attends his puppet opera of FAUST. Gaston's shady art dealer (Ludwig Stossel) knows he kills women, but conceals evidence because his paintings sell. When Gaston's latest victim is recognized in one of his works at an exhibit, inspector LeFevre (George Pembroke) takes steps to trap the mysterious painter. This is an amazing, low-budget work by acclaimed cult director Edgar G. Ulmer. Filled with repertoire costumes and painted backgrounds, the stagey feel nonetheless adds to the claustrophobic air of melancholy that hangs over the film, as if the cast were all puppets themselves in some cheap production. It's not a particularly scary film, but it offers plenty of excitement and has moments of beauty, and Carradine is effective as the quietly tortured, magnetic artist.
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- UPC: 014381967425
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