Director: Thorold Dickinson
Cast: Adolf Wohlbrück, Edith Evans, Yvonne Mitchell, Ronald Howard, Mary Jerrold,
Plot: An elderly countess strikes a bargain with the devil and exchanges her soul for the ability to always win at cards. An army officer, who is also a fanatic about cards, murders her for the secret, then finds himself haunted by the woman's spirit.
Thorold Dickinson
In his Biographical Dictionary of Film, David Thompson has a very brief entry on the English director Thorold Dickinson. He implies that Dickinson was a kind of failure, unable to make films and so turning to teaching. Thompson sees him as a sad […]