Añade un argumento en tu idiomaA secretary suspects that her employer's three elderly sisters are plotting to kill him after he announces he'll no longer finance their philanthropic endeavors.A secretary suspects that her employer's three elderly sisters are plotting to kill him after he announces he'll no longer finance their philanthropic endeavors.A secretary suspects that her employer's three elderly sisters are plotting to kill him after he announces he'll no longer finance their philanthropic endeavors.
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- CuriosidadesFirst of only two feature films on which Dylan Thomas had a writing credit during his lifetime. The second one, "No Room At The Inn", was also released in 1948. In both cases, Thomas's credit is shared.
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Owen Morgan-Vaughan: I've been driving for hours and hours, slag heaps and pit heads and vile black hills. Huh! How vile was my valley! I'm sick of all this Celtic clap trap about Wales. My Wales!
[mockingly]
Owen Morgan-Vaughan: Land of my Fathers! As far as I'm concerned, my fathers can keep it. You can tell he's a Welshman by the lilt in his voice. Huh, little black back-biting hypocrites, all gab and whine! Black beetles with tenor voices and a sense of sin like a crippled hump. Cwmglas! Full of senile morons and vicious dwarfs, old poles of women clacking at you like blowsy hens, self-righteous little humbugs with the hwyl, old men with beards in their noses cackling at you, blue gums and clackers. Oh the mystical Welsh-huh! About as mystical as slugs!
Isobel Morgan-Vaughan: You must forgive my brother, Miss Prentiss. He sees in Cwmglas so many of his own endearing qualities.
Maude Morgan-Vaughan: He looks just like his mother.
Owen Morgan-Vaughan: I don't know who's got the dirtiest mind, Maude - you or the Devil.
Maude Morgan-Vaughan: He's religious too.
It was directors Daniel Birt's first outing as a director and actress Nova Pilbream, the put upon secretary's, swan-song though she did a little stage work after the films completion. (Her life story would make a fascinating up-to-date biography if anyone had the time and skill.)
The film, though not exactly horror is gothic, and is essentially about murder. It's sinister leanings see it falling into the sub-genre of psycho-biddy of hagsploitation a le Bette Davis and Joan Crawford. The films three Morgan-Vaughan sisters are far more refined than their American counterparts; one reviewer described them, and the movie, as 'posh'. I guess compared to what was happening across the pond The Three Weird Sisters was 'posh'. Little in the way of histrionics, that deliberately cultivated BBC voice without which securing work in the UK was impossible and a gentler more controlled tone all contribute to an elegance absent from say What Ever Happened to Baby Jane.
The Sisters , released in 1948, pre-date the advent of the American psycho-biddy genre by a decade or two. Even so the defining trope, a formerly alluring older woman, three in this case, becomes mentally unstable and threatens those around her/them is immediately evident in the The Sisters.
This films real significance is it's place in cinematic history. It is never mentioned in scholarly discussions of the psycho-biddy genre and should be. It is no stretch at all see it stand comfortably alongside Lady in a Cage or Straight Jacket despite its British reserve.
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