Cast a Dark Shadow
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Cast a Dark Shadow | |
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Directed by | Lewis Gilbert |
Produced by | Herbert Mason |
Written by | Janet Green play Murder Mistaken John Cresswell |
Starring | Dirk Bogarde Margaret Lockwood Kay Walsh |
Music by | Antony Hopkins |
Cinematography | Jack Asher |
Distributed by | Eros Films Ltd. |
Release date(s) | 1955 |
Running time | 82 min |
Language | English |
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Cast a Dark Shadow is a 1955 British suspense film directed by Lewis Gilbert. The black-and-white film was based on the play "Murder Mistaken" by Janet Green about a psychotic Bluebeard.
[edit] Plot
Edward "Teddy" Bare killed his first wife (making it look like an accident) hoping to claim her inheritance, only to discover she didn't have one. When another chance presents itself Bare begins planning killing his next wife. But murder second time round is a bit more difficult.
[edit] Featured cast
- Dirk Bogarde as Edward "Teddy" Bare
- Margaret Lockwood as Freda Jeffries
- Kay Walsh as Charlotte Young
- Kathleen Harrison as Emmie
- Robert Flemyng as Phillip Mortimer
- Mona Washbourne as Monica Bare