Wanted for Murder (Huntington, 1946): BFI Southbank, NFT3, 8.40pm
A serial killer stalks post-war London in this underseen noir, co-written by Emeric Pressburger. The nfilm will be introduced by Simon McCallum.
BFI introduction:
London, 1945: a strangler is on the loose, roaming the hot summer nights
from Hampstead Heath to Regent’s Park. Eric Portman is on frighteningly
icy form as a businessman ‘possessed’ by the evil spirit of his father,
a notorious Victorian hangman immortalised in Madame Tussauds.
Co-written by Emeric Pressburger in 1938 and belatedly shot at Welwyn
Studios, with vibrant location scenes offering glimpses of a capital
resuming normal life, this post-war British psycho-noir is executed with
considerable panache.
Here (and above) is the trailer.
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