Finger Of Guilt

Another cinema-industry introspection film, this time from filmmakers who had reason to introspect. Director Losey and writer Koch were two of the talented industry people disenfranchised and self-exiled during the blacklistings of the McCarthy era. Both worked under pseudonyms; the US release even credited producer Snowden with direction in this instance. The film stars Basehart as an American expatriate--like the writer and director--and a former Hollywood film editor, now a producer in a large London-based studio. Studio intrigue has him doubting his own sanity and threatens his career and his marriage to Brook, whose father, Livesey, is the studio chief. The th...