Black Orchid (1953)

August 21st, 2024
Author: Meredith Taylor

Dir: Charles Saunders | Cast: Ronald Howard, Olga Edwardes | Jack Bentley | UK Drama 58’

This is the sort of film that should be obligatory viewing for students of the narrative construction in the cinema for the sheer fascination of the single-mindedness with which the narrative is pared to the bone with not a solitary digression allowed to interfere with its determined pursuit of its goal of achieving its remit to deliver a dramatic conclusion.

In particular, it manages to include a gay character since the only possible motivation of the killer could come from the vengeful desire to satisfy the thwarted longings of one in the pangs of the love that then dared not speak its name. @RichardChatten

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