Moss Rose (Ratoff, 1947): BFI Southbank, NFT2, 6.20pm
A 35mm screening in the 'Projecting the Archive' strand at BFI Southbank introduced by Josephine Botting, BFI Curator.BFI introduction:
We mark the centenary of Peggy Cummins with a film from her Hollywood
period – one of three collaborations with director Ratoff. Marjorie
Bowen’s 1934 source novel was itself based on an unsolved Victorian
murder and this adaptation features Cummins as a Cockney chorus girl who
blackmails a rich gentleman she suspects of being the killer. Despite
the excellent cast and crack screenwriting team, the film didn’t enhance
Cummins’ stateside career. Nevertheless, it remains an entertaining
mystery thriller set against the backdrop of foggy Victorian London,
Hollywood-style.
Here (and above) is the trailer.
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