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Ladies in Retirement (1941)
Director: Charles Vidor
Movie review
From Time Out Film Guide
In this stage-bound yet surprisingly involving Gothic melodrama, Lupino plays a housekeeper who murders her ex-actress employer (Elsom) in order to prevent her two mentally disturbed sisters (Lanchester and Barrett) from being sent to an asylum. The blend of eccentricity and (genteel) Grand Guignol works well, though the events portrayed are nothing like as shocking as they must have seemed at the time of the film's original release. Remade in 1968 as The Mad Room.Author: NF
Cast & crew
Director: Charles Vidor
Producer: Lester Cowan
Cast: Ida Lupino, Louis Hayward, Evelyn Keyes, Elsa Lanchester, Edith Barrett, Isobel Elsom, Emma Dunn full cast
Genre(s): Horror
Duration: 92 mins
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