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Bookmark this pageDark Waters (1944)
Director: André De Toth
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From Time Out Film Guide
Woman-in-peril thriller with Oberon, orphaned and left a nervous wreck by a World War II torpedoing, recuperating with relatives living in Louisiana (in an old dark house, naturally) who conspire to have her declared insane so that they can claim her fortune. Oberon is tiresomely tremulous, and the script almost as shaky; but the sterling efforts of De Toth and cameraman John Mescall (whose lighting invests the bayou swamplands surrounding the house with a magically eerie mystery) combine to turn dross into a wonderfully mean and moody slice of Southern Gothic.Author: TM
Cast & crew
Director: André De Toth
Producer: Benedict Bogeaus
Cast: Merle Oberon, Franchot Tone, Thomas Mitchell, Fay Bainter, John Qualen, Elisha Cook Jr, Rex Ingram full cast
Genre(s): Thrillers
Duration: 90 mins
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