剧情介绍
A mentally unstable man, who has been kept in isolation for years, escapes and causes trouble for his identical twin brother.
Paul Raden (Albert Dekker), hopelessly insane son of Maxim Raden, hated owner of the Radentown mills, is in a strait jacket in a secret room in the family mansion, while the body of his father is lowered into a grave. Twenty-five years earlier, the brutal father had hurled Paul against a wall when the young boy had tried to defend his mother and, with his brain injured forever, Paul's last memory, before descending into the shadows on insanity, was his mother's agonized scream. At the graveside are Dr. Ben Saunders (Harry Carey), Paul's twin brother John (Albert Dekker) and John's wife Elaine (Frances Farmer). Pompey (Ernest Whitman'), the family servant who has cared for and guarded Paul and kept the family secret for a quarter of a century,watches from afar. That night Dr. Saunders tells John that his twin, who he thought dead, is alive as the father, refusing to commit him to an institution, had bribed the doctor to sign a false death certificate and then bury another child's body ...
结尾那段还是蛮有意思的
Paul挺可怜的。
哥特又黑色
短小精悍 寓意颇多。
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开场随着镜头的拉近能够透过铁门看到Raden老房子的这段场景一下就让我想起同样具有哥特风格的《蝴蝶梦》，这片子真的是冲着Susan Hayward看的，等了20多分钟才出场，看到她从阁楼间的惊艳出场至少没让我白等，话说我差点以为我脸盲，果然Albert Dekker是一人分饰两角，由于众人以为Paul已经死了，所以错把John认作杀人的Paul，这中间还引出了是否应该动用私刑的问题，直到John跑到墓地发现了倒地的Paul才让众人了解真相。
阿尔伯特·德科一人分饰两角，因为出色的造型和对白腔调，直到两个角色同框的一刻才让人意识到是同一个演员。大宅哥特氛围浓厚，影片没有局限于精神分析和犯罪情节，而是描绘一个信息闭塞执法不力的小镇展露社会暗面，心智失常者反被视作“绅士”实属荒诞。后半段Paul造型改变，兄弟俩真正成为一体两面，同时为金钱狂热的群众发起猎巫行动意图实施私刑，正是影片的讽刺最为猛烈的时刻，直接拔高了全片立意。结尾那段信息传播蒙太奇相当精彩，将口耳相传的狂热具象化
一个十岁的孩子因为家庭暴力的影响变得心理扭曲，然后被父亲关了二十五年。逃出来之后发现社会一片阴暗，还不如从小长大的旧房子了。一个类似于《弗兰肯斯坦》的惊悚故事，因为嫩得能掐出水的苏珊·海沃德而变得生动起来。
millie is such a naughty girl
35mm
Hayward出现在楼梯上的瞬间陷入恋爱中……
Among the gothic mob.
编剧巧妙地把几种元素糅合在一起，贪婪的暴民无处不在，男主本性善良的胞弟成了这场闹剧的牺牲品
Susan Hayward早期演出。基本上就是個Frankenstein外殼加雙胞胎元素的美國南方gothic，故事說得蠻有效率的，可惜情節漏洞稍多。