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aka The Hidden Room (1949) BFI Director Edward Dmytryk began his screen career as a messenger at Paramount, graduating to film editing before making his first film as a director, The Hawk in 1935 although his career proper in this capacity dates from 1939's Television Spy. Among his major Hollywood pictures were Hitler's Children (1943) and two memorable suspense thrillers, Murder My Sweet (1943) and Cornered (1944) but, after the much lauded Crossfire in 1946, Hollywood's serious (and responsible) attempt to deal with the controversial subject of racial prejudice - in this case anti-Semitism - he fell foul of the notorious House Un-American Activities, was numbered among the Hollywood Ten and served a year in jail for his Communist affiliations. Obsession was one of the three pictures he made in Britain after being victimised by Senator Joseph McCarthy. It is a first-rate suspense thriller with a stand-out performance by Robert Newton as a homicidal husband determined to do away with his wife 's lover by means of a perfect murder - a sinister scheme which involves the complete disposal of the victim's body in a bath of acid. It was, incidentally, this congruence with the real-life Haigh acid-bath murders that was responsible for the delay in Obsession (which was known on its release in the United States as The Hidden Room) receiving its first British screening.
Broadcast	11:15pm on Friday, 13th May 1983
Strand	The Bad Guys
Alternate Title	The Hidden Room
Duration	96 minutes
Genre	Crime, Film-Noir, Thriller
IMDb ID	tt0041460 - BFI
Director	Edward Dmytryk
Writer	Alec Coppel
Cast	Robert Newton, Phil Brown, Sally Gray, Naunton Wayne, James Harcourt, Betty Cooper, Michael Balfour, Ronald Adam, Roddy Hughes, Allan Jeayes, Olga Lindo, Russell Waters, Lyonel Watts, Sam Kydd, Monty the Dog
Language	English
Repeat	No

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