Directed by Edward Dmytryk • 1949 • United Kingdom
Starring Robert Newton, Sally Gray, Naunton Wayne
The first film director Edward Dmytryk made in England after being blacklisted from Hollywood is a wittily inventive blend of black comedy and suspense in which the investigation by a Scotland Yard detective (Naunton Wayne) into a London psychiatrist (Robert Newton) and his diabolical revenge against his adulterous wife’s lover becomes a most entertaining battle of wits. Making vivid use of the rubble-strewn landscapes of bombed-out postwar England, OBSESSION toys playfully with the well-worn genre convention of the “perfect crime.”
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