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Corridor of Mirrors (1948)
Country of Origin: UK
Year of Production: 1948
Running Times: 96 mins (USA)
105 mins
Length: 2886 metres
Format: black and white 35mm
Ratio: 1.37:1
Sound: mono
CREDITS
PRODUCTION
Production Companies: Apollo Films Ltd/Carter-Romney Productions
Producer: Rudolph
Cartier
Production Manager: Sam Lee
SCRIPT
Script: Rudolph
Cartier, Edana Romney
Novel: Chris Massie
DIRECTION
Director: Terence Young
PHOTOGRAPHY
Director of Photography: André Thomas
EDITING AND POST-PRODUCTION
Editor: Douglas Myers
MUSIC
Music: Georges Auric
SOUND
Sound Recordist: Jimmy Davie
COSTUMES AND MAKE-UP
Make Up: Gerry Fairbank
Hair: Luigi Mancini
Costume Designer: Hyde-Clarke
Costumes Executed By: Maggie Rouff
DESIGN AND SET CONSTRUCTION
Art Director: Terence Verity
CAST
Eric Portman (Paul Mangin)
Edana Romney (Mifanwy Conway)
Barbara Mullen (Veronica)
Hugh Sinclair (Owen Rhys)
Bruce Belfrage (Sir David Conway)
Alan Wheatley (Edgar Orsen)
Joan Maude (Caroline Hart)
Leslie Weston (Mortimer)
Hugh Latimer (Bing)
John Penrose (Brand)
Christopher Lee
(Charles)
Lois Maxwell (Imogene)
Mavis Villiers (Babs)
Thora Hird (old woman)
Valentine Dyall (counsel for defence (uncredited))
Gordon McLeod (prosecutor (uncredited))
Noel Howlett (psychiatrist (uncredited))
Suzanne Gibbs (Gwendoline (uncredited)
AVAILABILITY
USA
Theatrical Distributor: Universal International Pictures
Video Distributor: World Video
TIMELINE
1948
March
14: UK – theatrical release
24: USA – theatrical release
December
Day Unknown: Austria – theatrical release
1949
March
22: USA – theatrical release
1950
December
8: West Germany – theatrical release
1953
April
14: USA - television broadcast
1960
May
24: UK - television broadcast
1963
August
3: UK - television broadcast (on BBC)
1997
October
15: France – shown at the Cherbourg-Octeville Festival of Irish
and British Film
ALTERNATIVE TITLES
La extraña cita – Spanish
title
Im Banne der Vergangenheit – Austrian/German
title
Il mistero degli specchi – Italian title
Die Spiegelgalerie – Austrian title
REFERENCES
MAGAZINES
Film Index no.30 (November 1974) p.112
(USA)
review
Films in Review vol.38 no.1 (January
1987) pp.38-40 (USA)
review
Kine Weekly no.2133 (18 March 1948) (UK)
review
Monthly Film Bulletin vol.15 no.172 (April
1948) p.45 (UK)
credits, review
Today's Cinema vol.70 no.5621 (12 March
1948) p.8 (UK)
review
KEYWORDS
book into film, horror, obsession, paintings, strangulation
Last Updated:
15 October, 2008
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