Films I found worth watching

My Name Is Julia Ross (1945)
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Thriller / Drama

The tagline sums it up fairly well.
“She went to sleep as a secretary ... and woke up a madman's "bride"!”

This was produced as a B-unit at Columbia. It was made to be a fill in, b-movie, low budget and quickly done. However it has risen above and is a wonderful early “Try to drive the woman crazy” film. That might not be a “real” category but it should be.
So this chick, Julia Ross, finds a job with this wealthy widow, Mrs. Hughes. As these stories are want to go, our hero has no real relations or friends (but one) and is new to the town. After a few days, she finds herself in a different house, wearing someone else’s cloths and the people around her are adamant that she is someone other then who she knows she is. The household’s residents, of course, mean for her to meet with a not so pleasant end. The son of the widow is pretty creepy and likes to play with knives, so that’s always a plus. Very 1940s, enjoyably dramatic, clever and well acted.



Gaslight (1944)
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Thriller/Drama

Ingrid Bergman
Angela Lansbury

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Main Entry: gaslight
Part of Speech: v
Definition: to manipulate someone into questioning their own sanity; to subtly drive someone crazy

Gaslight is about this girl Paula, who’s aunt and guardian, Alice is straggled. Paula goes away to Italy for ten years and returns to London married to Gregory Anton. Her new husband convinces her to move back to her aunts house in London. She is not keen but like any good woman dose what her man tells her too. He’s a bit shady and after they move in he slowly starts messing with her head. This is another “Try to drive the woman crazy” movie from the 1940s. Well acted, in fact this is, Angela Lansbury ‘s first film. And she’s a sarcastic sullen house maid named Nancy Oliver. Delightful. I love the ending of this film. Ingrid Bergman is a categorical goddess.

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