Obsession (1949)

NR08/03/1949Thriller, Crime1h 36m
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Hidden love! Hidden hate! Hidden fear!

Overview

A British psychiatrist devises a devilish revenge plot against his wife's lover.

Top Billed Cast

  1. Cast 1

    Robert Newton

    Dr. Clive Riordan

  2. Cast 1

    Phil Brown

    Bill Kronin

  3. Cast 1

    Sally Gray

    Storm Riordan

  4. Cast 1

    Naunton Wayne

    Supt. Finsbury

  5. Cast 1

    James Harcourt

    Aitkin (butler)

  6. Cast 1

    Betty Cooper

    Miss Stevens (receptionist)

  7. Cast 1

    Allan Jeayes

    The Colonel, blustery club member

  8. Cast 1

    Ronald Adam

    Talkative, balding club member

  9. Roddy Hughes

    Bespectacled third club member, from Whitehall

This is probably the best straight-part effort from Robert Newton I've ever seen. He is super as the doctor "Riorden" who has had just about enough of his wife's infidelities so decides to rid himself of her latest flame "Bill" (Phil Brown). After surprising the couple at their home, he somehow (and this is very much the weaker part of the film) manages to get the man chained to the wall of a bombed-out basement where he proceeds to hold him captive for weeks, whilst implementing a particularly grizzly, but untraceable, plan to kill and dispose of him. Wife "Storm" (Sally Gray) suspects that s...