Obsession (1949 film)

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Obsession
Theatrical release poster (USA)
Directed by	Edward Dmytryk
Produced by	Nat A. Bronstein Kenneth Horne
Screenplay by	Alec Coppel
Based on	the novel A Man About A Dog by Alec Coppel
Starring	Robert Newton
Music by	Nino Rota
Cinematography	C.M. Pennington-Richards
Editing by	Lito Carruthers
Studio	Independent Sovereign Films
Distributed by	General Film Dist. (UK) Eagle-Lion Films (USA)
Release dates	3 August 1949 (1949-08-03)
Running time	96 minutes
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English

Obsession, released in the US as The Hidden Room, is a 1949 British crime film directed by Edward Dmytryk,^[1] based on the book A Man About A Dog by Alec Coppel, who also wrote the screenplay for the film, and turned the story into a novel.^[2]

Obsession was entered into the 1949 Cannes Film Festival.^[3]

Plot

Dr Riordan's wife Storm is cheating on him with American Bill Kronin. He determines to get the perfect revenge.

Cast

Robert Newton as Dr. Clive Riordan
Phil Brown as Bill Kronin
Sally Gray as Storm Riordan
Naunton Wayne as Supt. Finsbury
James Harcourt as Aitkin (butler)
Betty Cooper as Miss Stevens (receptionist)
Michael Balfour as American sailor
Ronald Adam as Clubman
Roddy Hughes as Clubman
Allan Jeayes as Clubman
Olga Lindo as Mrs. Humphries
Russell Waters as Flying Squad detective
Lyonel Watts as Clubman
Sam Kydd as Club steward

Reception

Critical response

Film critic Dennis Schwartz called the film "[a] first-rate British crime thriller." He wrote, "Blacklisted Hollywood director Edward Dmytryk (Murder, My Sweet/Cornered/Crossfire) in exile helms this first-rate British crime thriller, his first overseas. It's adapted by Alec Coppel from his own suspense novel A Man About a Dog. The film was inspired by a real such incident in London."^[4]

References

↑ "Obsession". NY Times. Retrieved 2011-05-05.
↑ "New Novels of the Week on the Good Earth.". The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1956) (Melbourne, Vic.: National Library of Australia). 3 January 1948. p. 22. Retrieved 4 September 2012.
↑ "Festival de Cannes: Obsession". festival-cannes.com. Retrieved 2009-01-10.
↑ Schwartz, Dennis. Ozus' World Movie Reviews. film review, March 30, 2007.

External links

Obsession at the Internet Movie Database
Obsession at allmovie
Obsession at the TCM Movie Database
Obsession information site and DVD review at DVD beaver (includes images)
Obsession film clip at YouTube

v t e Works by Alec Coppel

Plays	Short Circuit (1935) The Stars Foretell (1936) I Killed the Count (1937) Let’s Pretend (1938) Believe it Or Not (1940) Mr Smart Guy (1941) My Friend Lester (1947) A Man About a Dog (1949) The Genius and the Goddess (1957) The Joshua Tree (1958) Oh, Captain! (1958) The Gazebo (1959) Viva Le Difference (1960) The Captain's Paradise (1961) Not in My Bed, You Don’t (1968) Cadenza (1977)

Novels	I Killed the Count (1938) A Man About a Dog (1947) Mr Denning Drives North (1950) The Last Parable (1953) Moment to Moment (1966) Tweedledum and Tweedledee (1967)

Screenplays	Over the Moon (1939) I Killed the Count (1939) Just like a Woman (1939) Smithy (1946) The Brass Monkey (1948) Woman Hater (1948) Obsession (1949) Two on the Tiles (1950) The Smart Aleck (1951) No Highway in the Sky (1951) Mr. Denning Drives North (1952) The Captain's Paradise (1953) Hell Below Zero (1954) The Black Knight (1954) To Catch a Thief (1954) Appointment with a Shadow (1957) Vertigo (1958) The Gazebo (1959) Swordsman of Siena (1962) Moment to Moment (1966) The Bliss of Mrs. Blossom (1968) The Statue (1971)

Films directed by Edward Dmytryk

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