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Experiment Perilous is a american film of genre Drama directed by Jacques Tourneur released in USA on 18 december 1944 with Hedy Lamarr

Experiment Perilous (1944)

Experiment Perilous
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Released in USA 18 december 1944
Length 1h31
Directed by
OriginUSA
Genres Drama,    Thriller,    Noir,    Romance
Rating62% 3.1452553.1452553.1452553.1452553.145255

Experiment Perilous is a 1944 melodrama set at the turn of the 20th century. The film is based on a 1943 novel by Margaret Carpenter and directed by Jacques Tourneur. Albert S. D'Agostino, Jack Okey, Darrell Silvera, and Claude E. Carpenter were nominated for an Academy Award for Best Art Direction-Interior Decoration, Black-and-White. Hedy Lamarr's singing voice was dubbed by Paula Raymond.

Synopsis

The story takes place in 1903. During a train trip, psychiatrist Dr. Huntington Bailey (George Brent) meets a friendly older lady (Olive Blakeney). She tells him that she is going to visit her brother Nick and his lovely young wife Allida. Once in New York, Bailey hears that his train companion suddenly died. Shortly afterward, he meets the strange couple and becomes suspicious of Nick's treatment of his wife. Nick (Paul Lukas) keeps Allida (Hedy Lamarr), whom he is trying to pass off as crazy, a virtual prisoner in their London town house [a New York brownstone in the film], cutting off all contact with the outside world. The kindly Bailey takes it upon himself to attempt to free his new love Allida from the control of the insanely jealous Nick.

Actors

Hedy Lamarr

(Allida Bederaux)
George Brent

(Dr. Huntington Bailey)
Paul Lukas

(Nicholas 'Nick' Bederaux)
Albert Dekker

('Clag' Claghorn)
Carl Esmond

(John Maitland)
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