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Phantom Lady

1944

Robert Siodmak

Franchot Tone, Ella Raines, Alan Curtis, Aurora Miranda ...

7.0

1,213

Film noir. Mystery This noir thriller follows an innocent man blamed for the murder of his wife and unable to find the woman with whom he passed the evening in question. When he's imprisoned, his secretary ventures into a dark world to save him.

	Author	Review
United States	Richard Brody The New Yorker	"[Siodmak] tells a story about New York that shows nothing of New York and yet captures its essence by way of artifices that reveal profound and disturbing psychological truths about life in the city."	POS
United States	J. Hoberman The New York Times	"[It] has a nightmarish quality and dreamlike flow that transcends the banality of its script"	POS
United States	Dave Kehr Chicago Reader	"This is a very conventional murder mystery, offering few of the metaphysical complications that characterize the genre at its best"	NEG
United Kingdom	Paul Taylor Time Out	"[Siodmak's] manipulation of the film's key motif is masterly"	POS
United Kingdom	Adrian Turner Radio Times	"This is one of the high points of film noir (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Jerry Renshaw Austin Chronicle	"[Siodmak] infuses it with a major-studio classiness that helped make it a hit (...) The result is this entertaining, stylish movie."	POS
United States	Ed Gonzalez Slant	"The film has very little meat on its bones (...) but it strikes some gorgeous visual poses."	NEU

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