Bluebeard
The most sinister love story ever told!
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DVD Details
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: July 7, 2015
- Originally Released: 1944
- Label: Grapevine Video
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | John Carradine & Jean Parker | |
Performer: | Nils Asther, Ludwig Stössel & Iris Adrian | |
Directed by | Edgar G. Ulmer | |
Edited by | Carl Pierson | |
Screenwriting by | Pierre Gendron | |
Composition by | Leo Erdody | |
Director of Photography: | Jockey A. Feindel |
Entertainment Reviews:
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
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: 4/5 --
Bluebeard is one of director Edgar G. Ulmer's best works and contains one of John Carradine's greatest performances.
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TV Guide
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
Rating: 3/5 --
This is a small miracle of polished film-making.
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Radio Times
Rating: 4/5 --
Really good Ulmer film marred by an atrocious musical score
Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)
A breathtakingly self-reflexive portrait
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CinePassion
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: 842614106972
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