Shadowed Eyes
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Shadowed Eyes is a 1940 British
crime film
directed by Maclean Rogers
and starring Basil Sydney
, Patricia Hilliard and Stewart Rome
. A leading surgeon murders his wife's lover.
Cinema of the United Kingdom
The United Kingdom has had a major influence on modern cinema. The first moving pictures developed on celluloid film were made in Hyde Park, London in 1889 by William Friese Greene, a British inventor, who patented the process in 1890. It is generally regarded that the British film industry...
crime film
Crime film
Crime films are films which focus on the lives of criminals. The stylistic approach to a crime film varies from realistic portrayals of real-life criminal figures, to the far-fetched evil doings of imaginary arch-villains. Criminal acts are almost always glorified in these movies.- Plays and films...
directed by Maclean Rogers
Maclean Rogers
-Selected filmography:Director* The Third Eye * The Mayor's Nest * Up for the Derby * The Crime at Blossoms * Trouble * Summer Lightning * It's a Cop * Virginia's Husband...
and starring Basil Sydney
Basil Sydney
Basil Sydney was an English actor who made over fifty screen appearances, most memorably as Claudius in Laurence Olivier's 1948 film of Hamlet. He also appeared in classic films like Treasure Island , Ivanhoe and Around the World in Eighty Days , but the focus of his career was the legitimate...
, Patricia Hilliard and Stewart Rome
Stewart Rome
Stewart Rome was a British actor who appeared in more than 150 films between 1913 and 1950. He was born in Newbury, Berkshire in 1886 as Wernham Ryott Gifford but took the stage name of Stewart Rome which was later unsuccessfully contested by Cecil Hepworth who also used the name...
. A leading surgeon murders his wife's lover.
Partial cast
- Basil Sydney - Doctor Zander
- Patricia Hilliard - Doctor Diana Barnes
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