Tag: Mason James
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‘The Night Has Eyes’, directed by Leslie Arliss
Movie, 1942 A really quite effective, creepy, noirish psychological thriller, in which a house on the moors, presided over by a superbly grumpy distant and creepy main character, played by James Mason, isn’t quite what he seems. If the film lacks a little sophistication – both plot and the female characters stranded on the moor…
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"Hotel Reserve", directed by Lance Comfort, Mutz Greenbaum and Victor Hanbury
Movie, 1944 Movie dramatisation of Eric Ambler’s Epitaph for a Spy, whose departures from the book rather let it down. A young James Mason is good value, but a little switched on and glamorous as the bungling ‘hero’ Vadassy and the amateurish antics in the novel, which give it its tension, are rather smoothed out.…