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Bookmark this pageThe Intimate Stranger (1956)
Director: Joseph Walton Joseph Losey
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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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