Category: Directed by Peter Godfrey

  • The Woman in White (1948, Peter Godfrey)

    Half a great Gothic about drawing instructor Gig Young starting work at an English manor instructing Eleanor Parker. He soon finds himself in embroiled in a mystery involving sinister (and phenomenal) Sydney Greenstreet, an escape mental patient, as well as a love triangle between Parker and her best friend, played by Alexis Smith. Extremely well-made…

  • Escape Me Never (1947, Peter Godfrey)

    Godawful romantic quadrangle picture about irresistible composer Errol Flynn (maybe it’s the lederhosen, the film’s ostensibly set in 1900 Vienna) cheating on wife Ida Lupino with brother Gig Young’s fiancée Eleanor Parker. Parker’s lost as the villain, Flynn and Lupino are both terrible and competing for who can be worse; Young’s okay enough, all things…