CAUGHT
James MASON Robert RYAN
co-starring Barbara BEL GEDDES Frank FERGUSON Curt BOIS Ruth BRADY
‘A dark noir classic’ Empire
Idealistic Leonora is looking for the dream life and believes she’s found it when introduced to millionaire Smith Ohlrig. Quickly married she soon discovers him to be a domineering tyrant.This is not the life she had read about in the glossy magazines. In trying to escape this loveless existence she finds hope in the arms of a caring doctor but her psychotic husband doesn’t give up his possessions so easily.
Max Ophuls is widely regarded as one of the greatest and most revered directors in the history of cinema. His trademark array of lavish, fluid camera movements would influence generations of filmmakers to come. Among the many who have praised his genius are François Truffaut, Jean-Luc Godard, Martin Scorsese, Stanley Kubrick (who believed ‘his camera could pass through walls’) and more recently directors such as Todd Haynes and Paul Thomas Anderson who called him his ‘idol’.
SPECIAL FEATURES
• Commentary by Lutz Bacher,
author of ‘Max Ophuls in the Hollywood Studios’
• ‘UNCAUGHT’ by film historian Tag Gallagher
• PHOTO GALLERY
