Directed by Carlos Hugo Christensen • 1952 • Argentina
Starring Ángel Magaña, Renée Dumas, Diana de Córdoba
Based on two short stories by American master of suspense fiction Cornell Woolrich, NEVER OPEN THAT DOOR is a significant example of the cross-cultural cinematic legacy shared by the United States and Argentina during the post-WWII era. Brilliantly directed by Carlos Hugo Christensen with extraordinary cinematography by Pablo Tabernero, these twin tales of fate and chance, good and evil—one about a man out to avenge his sister’s suicide, the other about a blind mother’s dangerous reunion with her criminal son—are among the most evocative realizations of Woolrich ever produced, drenched in expressionist atmospherics and studded with masterful sequences of sustained suspense.
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If I Should Die Before I Wake
Directed by Carlos Hugo Christensen • 1952 • Argentina
Starring Néstor Zavarce, Blanca del Prado, Floren DelbeneOriginally intended as the third film in a trilogy of Cornell Woolrich adaptations (the first two of which comprise director Carlos Hugo Christensen’s NEVER OPEN THAT DOOR) only to be...
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The Beast Must Die
Directed by Román Viñoly Barreto • 1952 • Argentina
Starring Narciso Ibáñez Menta, Guillermo Battaglia, Milagros de la VegaBased on Cecil Day-Lewis’s classic novel of psychological suspense, this dark diamond of Argentine noir stars Narciso Ibáñez Menta as Felix Lane, a mystery writer who suff...
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The Bitter Stems
Directed by Fernando Ayala • 1956 • Argentina
Starring Carlos Cores, Julia Sandoval, Vassili LambrinosFeaturing stunning, shadow-drenched cinematography and an innovative tango-jazz-classical score by the great Astor Piazzolla, this expressionistically stylized noir has been acclaimed as one of...
