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Binnie Hale

Nudes & Noises

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L’actrice Binnie Hale, star de la revue londonienne No No Nanette en 1925

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Binnie Hale by Bassano Ltd, 1918.

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The Phantom Light - UK, 1935

The Phantom Light – UK, 1935

The Phantom Light is a 1935 British comedy thriller feature film produced by Jerome Jackson and directed by Michael Powell (Peeping Tom), based on Evadne Price and Joan Roy Byford’s play The Haunted Light. It stars Binnie Hale, Gordon Harker, Milton Rosmer and Herbert Lomas. The film makes a jokey reference to King Kong, released two years previously.

On the Welsh coast, Mr. Higgins, a new…

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the phantom light (uk, powell 35)

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30th August 1930: British revue comedienne Binnie Hale (1899 – 1984, formerly Beatrice Mary Hale-Monro) dressed as a Lyons' waitress for her part in the Julian Wylie production ‘Nippy’, showing at the Prince Edward Theatre in London. (Photo by Sasha/Getty Images/Source Rob Baker on Flashbak) She was also a delight in Michael Powell 1935′s quoto quickie “The Phantom Light” AND starred in “Magyar Melody”,  the first musical to be broadcast directly from a theatre and shown on television on 27 March 1939

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Welcome to another edition of Streaming Saturdays, where we embed a free, fabulous film for you to watch right here every week!

It would be sheer madness for a woman to take Love from a Stranger, wouldn’t it? But what if that stranger were Basil Rathbone?

And what if her alternative were pretty much the Mayor of Drippyville?

That’s the choice facing Ann Harding in this 1937 thriller based on a short story by Agatha Christie.

Struggling working girl Carol Howard (Harding) wins the lottery—woohoo!—which for some reason is the worst possible news to her dreary fiancé, Ronald (Bruce Seton). Why? For pretty much the same reason that Darren Stevens in Bewitched would rather work for tedious old Mr. Tate than let Samantha use her magic powers to make their life fabulous. Stubborn male pride. (Okay, not really sure why I went off on that TV tangent, but it’s always bugged me.)

Bruce and Carol’s engagement buckles under the hideous strain of her good fortune. But she’s not alone for long: Soon a tall, dark, mysterious stranger enters her life. (This is Christie country, remember, where things like that happen.) She quickly falls for and weds him—and in this case, it’s “Marry in haste, repent in terror.”

Love from a Stranger was deftly directed by Rowland Lee, who always brought an air of atmospheric brooding to whatever genre he worked in, be it horror (Tower of London and Son of Frankenstein), period drama (The Count of Monte Cristo and The Bridge of San Luis Rey) or swashbucklers (Captain Kidd and The Three Musketeers). He also had his own 214-acre movie ranch, which served as the setting for the farmhouses in Friendly Persuasion and Night of the Hunter and the amusement park in Strangers on a Train, among others.

This is the best print I could find, and it’s bit crackly, though that seems to suit the mood. I hope it doesn’t interfere with your enjoyment of this nifty little movie.

And while you’re watching, keep an eye out for Joan Hickson in a small role as Emmy the maid. Almost half a century later, she played Christie’s Miss Marple to perfection in the PBS Mystery! series.

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STREAMING SATURDAY! Agatha Christie’s Potboiler, LOVE FROM A STRANGER Welcome to another edition of Streaming Saturdays, where we embed a free, fabulous film for you to watch right here every week!

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Binnie Hale