A black-and-white locked room detective film, with ten characters, one female and nine male, among whom one is the murderer. I had never heard of this[Expand All]
A black-and-white locked room detective film, with ten characters, one female and nine male, among whom one is the murderer. I had never heard of this play before. But for the shooting of "8 Beauties", I watched it once, which benefited me a lot and gave me a clearer understanding of American films of that era. Ossan's "Marie-Octobre" is very realistic. It is a heavy film, shot in a meticulous and precise manner. Ossan goes in the opposite direction - light-hearted, non-realistic, colorful, and satirical (where characters accuse each other). Among The Christy-style detective films of the same kind, Orthorne prefers Guy Hamilton's "The Mirror Crack'd", "Evil under the Sun", and Sydney Lumet's "Orient Express". In "8 Beauties", the most references to this film are in the set design, such as the living room, study, bedroom, dining room, etc.[Collapse]
