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| Title: THE HOUSE ON TELEGRAPH HILL Year: 1951 Rating: ***1/2 |
If anyone but subtle Italian actress Valentina Cortese had starred in Robert Wise's THE HOUSE ON TELEGRAPH HILL, it would be the kind of haunted, wispy melodrama that the wispily melodramatic, haunting posters imply...
Ironically, on some artwork, American actress Fay Baker is more prominent, holding onto searing villain Richard Basehart, the great American actor who often sounds like a sophisticated British villain...
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| Valentina Cortese in THE HOUSE ON TELEGRAPH HILL |
He's the brooding yet charming secondary heir to the titular HOUSE that Cortese's Victoria Kowelska inherits... all in a ruse set up during the first act that's more like a European anti-war drama...
Taking place at a concentration camp towards the end of WW2, she befriends the real heir, a pale, slowly-dying woman whose son lives in the San Francisco manor... bringing about the important device of stolen identity that eventually comes to nothing...
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| Richard Basehart in THE HOUSE ON TELEGRAPH HILL |
The slow-burn thrills center on the rushed, loveless marriage between the leads, mostly taking place within the dark mansion's gothic interior combining the uneasy edginess of Alfred Hitchcock with the kind of horror programmers Wise directed for Val Lewton...
Overall, with perfectly handsome William Lundigan as the good guy and sultry Fay Baker wasted on the sidelines (keeping the young son protected in-between), the slyly venomous Basehart and the extremely-vulnerable Cortese deserved a deeper/darker ride... but for a time-filling potboiler, HOUSE ON TELEGRAPH HILL still delivers.
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| From THE HOUSE ON TELEGRAPH HILL |
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| Valentina Cortese in THE HOUSE ON TELEGRAPH HILL |
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| William Lundigan in THE HOUSE ON TELEGRAPH HILL |
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| Valentina Cortese in THE HOUSE ON TELEGRAPH HILL |
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| William Lundigan in THE HOUSE ON TELEGRAPH HILL |
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| Valentina Cortese in THE HOUSE ON TELEGRAPH HILL |
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| Richard Basehart in THE HOUSE ON TELEGRAPH HILL |
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| Fay Baker in THE HOUSE ON TELEGRAPH HILL |
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| Valentina Cortese in THE HOUSE ON TELEGRAPH HILL |
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| Valentina Cortese and Richard Basehart in THE HOUSE ON TELEGRAPH HILL |
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