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‘Who else is all Paris terrified of?’
‘Oh, Bluebeard, I’d forgotten’
Edgar Ulmer is a rare director whose films we have talked about on regular Dark Corners,
Dark Corners Classics,
and now here, expressing a promising career marred by personal scandal
that doomed him to poverty row B pictures like 1944’s Bluebeard,
which is one of the odder films you can find on Amazon Prime.
‘You like my little people’
But even working with the ultra-low budgets afford him by the Producers Releasing Company,
Ulmer did his best to make something of nothing.
Nobody is holding up Bluebeard as an overlooked classic, but it’s a decent potboiler,
made worthwhile by Ulmer’s occasional flourishes
and by John Carradine’s performance in the title role.
‘Good evening’
Despite the cheapness of the film, the actor reportedly ranked this as his favourite of own performances,
and he manages to be seductive yet somehow troubling.
‘What would Bluebeard want with me?’
‘I should think he might find you irresistible Mademoiselle’
The French legend of Bluebeard has given its name to many films
and the term is used generically for a man who kills a series of women
usually a wife, although not in this case.
Carradine’s Gaston Morel runs an elaborate puppet theatre in the park.
But this is a cover for his true identity as a great artist with a dreadful secret.
‘So you’re Bluebeard’
It’s as
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