Taking a break from opera. About to watch THE SEVENTH VICTIM (1943) dir. by #MarkRobson. Have high expectations based on this still of #JeanBrooks. Hope it doesn't disappoint.
My favorite Val Lewton film. Kim "Zira" Hunter (in her film debut) is a boarding school student who learns her sister has been missing for months. She travels to New York and finds that her sister had sold her business and vanished. Attorney Hugh "Ward Cleaver" Beaumont and psychiatrist Tom "Falcon" Conway are linked to her sister but they're both hiding a secret or two. When we finally do meet the missing woman (Jean Brooks, looking like a proto-goth dream girl), she's been hiding out... from Satanists!!! The ending is still shocking. Directed by Mark Robson (CHAMPION).
Genuinely creepy collaboration between Val Lewton and director Jacques Tourneur. Publicist Dennis O'Keefe comes up with a new gimmick for singer Jean Brooks (THE SEVENTH VICTIM boxd.it/PufDV ): a leopard (actually Dynamite, the black panther from CAT PEOPLE boxd.it/QSvJ3 ). As Brooks walks into the club with the panther, rival dancer Clo-Clo (Margo) grows jealous of the attention Jean is getting and spooks the cat. It escapes into the night in a small New Mexico resort town. Soon after, a young girl is apparently killed by the panther in a sequence that smartly relies on the power of suggestion. That
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