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Thursday, July 12, 2018

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     My Name is Julia Ross
1945  NR  DRAMA  1h 5min
CAST— Nina Foch, Dame May Whitty, George Macready, Roland Varno, Anita Bolster, Doris Lloyd
MUSIC— Mischa Bakaleinikoff  DIRECTOR— Joseph H. Lewis  BASED ON— The Woman in Red (novel), by Anthony Gilbert

     Fine atmospheric quickie that features a suitably freaked out Nina Foch and a kindly condescending Dame May Whitty. Foch, desperate for a job, moves in with Whitty and son in their countryside estate, believing this to be a secretarial job. But upon waking the next day, they claim that she is the young man’s wife, a bedridden amnesiac. Adamantly refusing to believe this nonsense, she is then virtually held captive in the massive house, awaiting rescue by anyone who happens to believe her. Fine use of shadows adds emphasis to the feeling of entrapment Foch endures.
OUR RATING— ** ½
REMADE AS— Dead of Winter (1987)
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