CAST A DARK SHADOW is a slice of British noir, centred around a well-to-do household where Dirk Bogarde plays a Bluebeard-type character who's desperate to make himself rich by bumping off a succession of wives. Bogarde takes possibly his darkest role here and he really has a ball with it, particularly in the latter stages when he really cracks up. The rest of the story is quite small scale and it's one of those static pictures that's quite obviously based on a play, with a succession of characters turning up to converse with the leads. Still, the cast is carefully chosen and the film's psychological aspects ring true. Some of the big twists are rather obvious for a modern viewer, but otherwise this is solid stuff.
Review of Cast a Dark Shadow
