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Tuesday, May 7, 2024

Tormented (1960)

A jazz pianist (Richard Carlson) is about to be married when he is visited by a woman (Juli Reding) he had an affair with. She threatens to expose him to his fiancee (Lugene Sanders). When a railing high atop a lighthouse gives way, she falls clinging to the railing and asking to be saved but the pianist allows her to fall to her death. But that is not the end of her as her ghost stalks him. Directed by schlockmeister Bert I. Gordon (VILLAGE OF THE GIANTS), this low budget B (or is it C) movie is like an extended version of a TWILIGHT ZONE episode. Its ending is telegraphed so there are no surprises and Gordon isn't a stylish enough director to provide the requisite atmosphere that might have made a ghost story work. While absurd, it's not quite silly enough to qualify as "camp" but the movie has one stylish asset, the B&W cinematography of Ernest Laszlo (IT'S A MAD MAD MAD MAD WORLD). With Joe Turkel and Susan Gordon.

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