Strange Impersonation
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Manufacturer: Kino Video
Starring: Brenda Marshall, William Gargan, Hillary Brooke, George Chandler, Ruth Ford
Directed By: Anthony Mann
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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 9786305950660
Format: Black & White
ISBN: 6305950660
Label: Kino Video
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Kino Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: 2000-07-18
Running Time: 68
Studio: Kino Video
Theatrical Release Date: 1946-03-16
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Summary: A Poverty Row Trash Classic
Comment: This Republic B-pic is a cult noir film with a deserved following. It stars Brenda Marshall as a committed career woman in research chemistry who experiments on herself after hours to avoid the red tape at work. The experiment goes horribly wrong, leaving her face badly scarred. Her pretty lab assistant (Hillary Brooke) schemes to get her boss out of the way and marry the man that Marshall was putting off at the start of the film. The film follows Marshall's plastic surgeries and return to the same firm, where she figures out how the assistant managed to marry her former fiance. A subplot involves a woman she accidentally meets, whose identity she takes over in order to effect the deception. The whole thing is served up with a wicked twist at the end that I thought worked completely. The film proves you can do wonders on a low budget if you've got the script, right actors & director, and a lot of guts.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Strange Movie
Comment: This film was fairly interesting in parts, but the plot didn't make any sense. Brenda Marshall plays an interesting person- a woman scientist- which was rare in the 1940's. However, the film loses credibility when she has an accident and is disfigured. She has plastic surgery and changes identities. However, she looks the same as she did before, but no one seems to recognize her. That particular item spoiled the movie for me.
Ruth Ford plays a tough blackmailer and Hillary Brooke portrays a really bad lady. William Gargan is very ineffective as Brenda Marshall's love interest. His usual vibrant personality is really subdued here.
Anthony Mann is the director and he does a credible job, but the writing is amateurish and the whole production looks very shoddy.
The print itself is pretty good and there is a certain film noir feeling to it.
I liked the fact that Brenda Marshall played an intelligent scientist and that the women had very strong roles, but the overall impression that I went away with was disappointment
Customer Rating:
Summary: A NOTE TO CUSTOMER REVIEWERS...
Comment: Please warn readers about potential spoilers at the beginning of your reviews. The ending is revealed in one of the previous critiques. Thanks and happy viewing!
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Summary: STRANGE "MOVIE".....
Comment: A chemist (Brenda Marshall) working on a new anesthetic takes the product home and tries it out. Her assistant (Hilary Brooke), who may be after Marshalls' husband, arranges an "accident" that reults in Marshalls' face being disfigured. Marshall then murders a woman trying to blackmail her over a previous car accident and has to go on the lam with the dead womans' identity. She plots to take revenge and everything snowballs into a nightmare worse than before. The finale sees it all as just a weird hallucination she experienced from the drug. Huh? All this mumbo jumbo is played out in a very short running time. I wouldn't call this a "movie" so much as a cheap experimental student project. There are no production values at all. The sets are cardboard and the acting is dull and at times amateurish. I know that Anthony Mann has a reputation as a low budget film noirist but this is the cheapest attempt at telling a story I've seen in a while. Ulmer's "Detour" is pretty cheap but at least it's interesting. This was interesting at first but the ending just left me flat. Low budget is one thing but out and out cheap is another. I will not fault this films' defenders. To each his or her own. But it's just too cheap for me to see more than once. So it's recommended for Manns' fans and others with their curiosity meter turned WAY up.
Customer Rating:
Summary: SKIN DEEP AND DEEPER
Comment: Skin deep is not deep enough.
Jealousy, murder, plastic surgery and revenge in a Hitchcockian tour de force from Director Anthony Mann ("El Cid," "Desperate," "Bamboo Blond," "God's Little Acre").
Mann was widely praised for his meticulous eye for detail and his instinctive sense of mise en scene which he prominently shows in "Strange Impersonation."
The radiant and beautiful Brenda Marshall is a scientist who spurns marriage for her pioneering breakthroughs in the science of anesthetics. That's right, anesthetics. But YOU won't fall asleep watching this very surreal, sly, primitive, artful but low budget tale with a stunning, surprise ending. (Full Screen, B&W, 68 minutes, Not Rated)...
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Customer Rating:
Summary: A Poverty Row Trash Classic
Comment: This Republic B-pic is a cult noir film with a deserved following. It stars Brenda Marshall as a committed career woman in research chemistry who experiments on herself after hours to avoid the red tape at work. The experiment goes horribly wrong, leaving her face badly scarred. Her pretty lab assistant (Hillary Brooke) schemes to get her boss out of the way and marry the man that Marshall was putting off at the start of the film. The film follows Marshall's plastic surgeries and return to the same firm, where she figures out how the assistant managed to marry her former fiance. A subplot involves a woman she accidentally meets, whose identity she takes over in order to effect the deception. The whole thing is served up with a wicked twist at the end that I thought worked completely. The film proves you can do wonders on a low budget if you've got the script, right actors & director, and a lot of guts.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Strange Movie
Comment: This film was fairly interesting in parts, but the plot didn't make any sense. Brenda Marshall plays an interesting person- a woman scientist- which was rare in the 1940's. However, the film loses credibility when she has an accident and is disfigured. She has plastic surgery and changes identities. However, she looks the same as she did before, but no one seems to recognize her. That particular item spoiled the movie for me.
Ruth Ford plays a tough blackmailer and Hillary Brooke portrays a really bad lady. William Gargan is very ineffective as Brenda Marshall's love interest. His usual vibrant personality is really subdued here.
Anthony Mann is the director and he does a credible job, but the writing is amateurish and the whole production looks very shoddy.
The print itself is pretty good and there is a certain film noir feeling to it.
I liked the fact that Brenda Marshall played an intelligent scientist and that the women had very strong roles, but the overall impression that I went away with was disappointment
Customer Rating:
Summary: A NOTE TO CUSTOMER REVIEWERS...
Comment: Please warn readers about potential spoilers at the beginning of your reviews. The ending is revealed in one of the previous critiques. Thanks and happy viewing!
Customer Rating:
Summary: STRANGE "MOVIE".....
Comment: A chemist (Brenda Marshall) working on a new anesthetic takes the product home and tries it out. Her assistant (Hilary Brooke), who may be after Marshalls' husband, arranges an "accident" that reults in Marshalls' face being disfigured. Marshall then murders a woman trying to blackmail her over a previous car accident and has to go on the lam with the dead womans' identity. She plots to take revenge and everything snowballs into a nightmare worse than before. The finale sees it all as just a weird hallucination she experienced from the drug. Huh? All this mumbo jumbo is played out in a very short running time. I wouldn't call this a "movie" so much as a cheap experimental student project. There are no production values at all. The sets are cardboard and the acting is dull and at times amateurish. I know that Anthony Mann has a reputation as a low budget film noirist but this is the cheapest attempt at telling a story I've seen in a while. Ulmer's "Detour" is pretty cheap but at least it's interesting. This was interesting at first but the ending just left me flat. Low budget is one thing but out and out cheap is another. I will not fault this films' defenders. To each his or her own. But it's just too cheap for me to see more than once. So it's recommended for Manns' fans and others with their curiosity meter turned WAY up.
Customer Rating:
Summary: SKIN DEEP AND DEEPER
Comment: Skin deep is not deep enough.
Jealousy, murder, plastic surgery and revenge in a Hitchcockian tour de force from Director Anthony Mann ("El Cid," "Desperate," "Bamboo Blond," "God's Little Acre").
Mann was widely praised for his meticulous eye for detail and his instinctive sense of mise en scene which he prominently shows in "Strange Impersonation."
The radiant and beautiful Brenda Marshall is a scientist who spurns marriage for her pioneering breakthroughs in the science of anesthetics. That's right, anesthetics. But YOU won't fall asleep watching this very surreal, sly, primitive, artful but low budget tale with a stunning, surprise ending. (Full Screen, B&W, 68 minutes, Not Rated)...
A dark story of mistaken identity in which chemical researcher nora goodrich attempts to perform an experiment on her self with a new anesthesia she has invented only to have it literally blowup in her face. Plastic surgery changes her into a different person that even her fiance cant recognize. Studio: Kino International Release Date: 07/18/2000 Starring: Brenda Marshall William Gargan Run time: 68 minutes Rating: N/r Director: Anthony Mann
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