Dangerous to Know (Florey, 1938): BFI Southbank, NFT2, 8.50pm
This 35mm presentation, which also screens on October 4th, is part of the Anna May Wong season at BFI Southbank. The film will be introduced by season curator Xin Peng.BFI introduction:
Anna May Wong reprised her stage role as the mistress of an Al Capone-inspired gangster, in this Paramount adaptation of British writer Edgar Wallace’s Prohibition-era, Chicago-set play On the Spot. Confined in the mansion, Lan Ying haunts the story of a social-climbing gangster’s rise and fall. The film culminates in a harrowing finale that evidences Wong’s constant refining of her craft as a performer.
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