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Brain Dead
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“Who's in danger from whom? Who's crazy? Who can fathom the obscure motivations?”
Experiment Perilous (1944)
December 18, 19441h 31mEN
5.6
35 votes
Overview
In 1903, Doctor Huntington Bailey meets a friendly older lady during a train trip. She tells him that she is going to visit her brother Nick and his lovely young wife Allida. Once in New York, Bailey hears that his train companion suddenly died. Shortly afterward, he meets the strange couple and gets suspicious of Nick's treatment of his wife.
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Jacques TourneurWriters
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RKO Radio Pictures
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John Chard
8.0What Is This Evil That Shadows Their Lives? Experiment Perilous is directed by Jacques Tourneur and adapted to screenplay by Warren Duff from the Margaret Carpenter novel of the same name. It stars Hedy Lamarr, George Brent, Paul Lukas, Albert Dekker, Olive Blakeney and Carl Esmond. Music is by Roy Webb and cinematography by Tony Gaudio. 1903 New York and psychiatrist Dr. Huntington Bailey (Brent) is plunged into a psychological maelstrom when he enters the lives of Clarissa (Blakeney), Allida (Lamarr) and Nick Bederaux (Lukas). I've been living in that diary tonight, living the st…
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