STRANGE ILLUSION
35mm. L.:2338 m. D.: 83’ a 24 f/s. Out of the night-Strana illusione-Fuori della notte-Sangue nel sogno / USA, 1945). R.: Edgar G. Ulmer. S.: Fritz Rotter. Sc.: Adele Comandini. Scgf.: Paul Palmentola. F.: Philip Tannura. C.: Leo Erdody. In.: Jimmy Lydon (Paul Cartwright), Warren William (Brett Curtis), Sally Eilers (Virginia Cartwright), Regis Toomey (il dottore Vincent), Charles Arnt (il professor Muhlbach), George H. Reed (Benjamin), Jayne Hazard (Dorothy Cartwright), Jimmy Clark, Mary McLeod, Pierre Watkin, Charles Wagenheim, Edmund Cobb. P.: Producers Realeasing Corp.
Film Notes
PB: After Bluebeard, you made Strange Illusion. How did the idea for that come about?
EGU: [Fritz] Rotter’s play in New York, Letters from Lucerne, with Gerte Mosheim, was a big flop. I saw it and it was very nice, though not well written – Rotter mostly did musical comedies. I got Fromkess to buy the play, but when we wrote the script I went so far away from Rotter’s play that we sold it back to him! I was fascinated at that time with psychoanalysis and this story was about a father-son relationship. The picture was very well received critically. Whether it made money I do not know. At that time I was already chafing at the bit and wanted out of PRC. (Peter Bogdanovich, Edgar G. Ulmer. An Interview, Film Culture, 58.59.60, 1974)