I MET A MURDERER
(Classic Pictures)
HOSE who are sufficiently interested in the career of James Mason to pursue him into the dark, backward and abysm of time will probably want to see this picture, which he made around about the early ’30’s with Pamela Kellino (now his wife). But I hope that no unsuspecting filmgoer will be deluded by the advertisements into thinking that this is the same James Mason as they saw in Odd Man Out. The star developed more than somewhat in the interval. Nevertheless I Met a Murderer is not altogether family-album _ stuff. On Mason’s own admission it is bad in parts, but if intimations of immortality were absent I found a lot in it that I liked. Because it was made on a budget of about £3,000 7 Met a Murderer. was in large part filmed out-of-doors, without soundtrack, but I did not find this always a disadvantage. When a director cannot use sound he is forced to give all his attention to the visual image and that, surely, should be the primary aim in film-making. The final sequences of this particular picture were, I thought, particularly good when the circumstances (and the date) of production were remembered. In fact, I wonderéd if the last sequence of Odd Man Out owed anything to them.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 18, Issue 451, 13 February 1948, Page 24
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219I MET A MURDERER New Zealand Listener, Volume 18, Issue 451, 13 February 1948, Page 24
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