Bluebeard (1944)
Plays here · source: Internet Archive
In turn-of-the-century Paris, a puppeteer and portrait painter murders the women who sit for him, until a modiste who has fallen for him begins to suspect what happened to his vanished models.
Edgar G. Ulmer, still grinding away on Poverty Row a year after Detour, gives John Carradine one of his few starring roles — and Carradine, usually cast as a menacing supporting player, makes Bluebeard’s self-loathing as persuasive as his charm.
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