Due primarily to an amazing performance by Robert Montgomery, this superb, nerve-tingling thriller improves on Emlyn Williams's already shocking stage hit. Whitty is a fussy, domineering grande dame living in a cottage in Essex, England, with niece Russell and several cowed servants. Just
after Russell and Whitty hear that a "very flashy" woman guest in a nearby inn has vanished, Montgomery appears, claiming that he has been working as a page boy at the inn but is now looking for a new job. Montgomery brings with him a heavy hatbox that he places in a closet after being hired as a
handyman by the wheelchair-bound Whitty. He waits hand and foot upon her, flattering ...
Released:
1937
Rated:
NR
Length:
117 mins