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Bookmark this pageThe Intimate Stranger (1956)
Director: Joseph Walton Joseph Losey
Movie review
From Time Out Film Guide
Pseudonymously directed by Losey, who had been driven from Hollywood by the McCarthyite purge of the studios, Intimate Stranger is a wonderfully slow thriller with a baroque climax in a film studio. Richard Basehart is the studio executive pursued by blackmailing letters from a mysterious girl claiming to be his mistress, his problems complicated by the fact that his wife is the boss' daughter, while the star of his current film is a still-amorous ex-lover. As usual with Losey, both predator and victim take an almost pathological pleasure from their game of mutual destruction.Author: PH
Cast & crew
Director: Joseph Walton Joseph Losey
Producer: Alec C Snowden
Cast: Richard Basehart, Mary Murphy, Constance Cummings, Roger Livesey, Mervyn Johns, Faith Brook full cast
Genre(s): Thrillers
Duration: 94 mins
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