Escape in the Fog (1945);
Behind Locked Doors (1948)

August 12, 2012 - 7:00 pm

Billy Wilder Theater

Escape in the Fog (1945)

Directed by Budd Boetticher

Boetticher was never too sentimental about the programmers he churned out at Columbia when he was starting out: “They were nothing pictures. But they gave me a chance to work with some great people: Nina Foch, Otto Krueger, people like that.” Here, Boetticher works with both Foch and Krueger in a tight war-time programmer about a San Francisco spy ring with a supernatural twist.

Columbia Pictures. Producer: Wallace MacDonald. Screenwriter: Aubrey Wisberg. Cinematographer: George Meehan. Editor: Jerome Thoms. Cast: Otto Kruger, Nina Foch, William Wright, Konstantin Shayne, Ivan Triesault.

35mm, color, 65 min.

Behind Locked Doors (1948)

Directed by Budd Boetticher

Returning from the navy where he produced documentaries, Boetticher signed on with Poverty Row champ Eagle-Lion Productions. His second outing for the company, this gripping little thriller presages Samuel Fuller’s Shock Corridor (1962) with a detective (Carlson) working undercover as a patient at an insane asylum to root out a corrupt judge in hiding. Boetticher turns its B budget to his advantage building claustrophobic tension as inmates wail in the night.

Eagle-Lion Films. Producer: Eugene Ling. Screenwriter: Malvin Wald. Cinematographer: Guy Roe. Editor: Norman Colbert. Cast: Lucille Bremer, Richard Carlson, Douglas Fowley, Ralf Harolde, Tom Brown Henry.

16mm, b/w, 62 min.

Part of:

"Ride Lonesome: The Films of Budd Boetticher"

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Escape in the Fog (1945); Behind Locked Doors (1948)