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...NETTA FELDMAN Elizabeth...
...book, George Harvey Bone is a frustrated newspaperman and the jealous lover of a compelling brunette girl of the streets. When Netta spurns his advances, George provides the reader with some pleasant food for bedtime though by drowning her while she gambols in the evening bath. The late Laird Cregar, Twentieth-Century Fox's discerning choice for Bone, was forced by a more puritan plot to strangle a fully-dressed wench with a strip of drapery...
...Scotland Yard doctor (George Sanders), who is a pioneer in criminal insanity (the year is 1903), helps Bone realize that during these blank spells he may very possibly be a murderer. Bone is advised to relax. He tries to relax with a deadly poisonous music-hall beauty named Netta (Linda Darnell). When she contemptuously uses his infatuation as a means to her own evil ends, he proves the doctor was right, using Netta's neck as a proving-ground. Still amnesiac, he plants her corpse on the crest of a Guy Fawkes bonfire, goes home and gets on with...
...hair-raising plays -Rope's End (1929) and this winter's Angel Street -is a psychiatric case history written as a horror story. Its victim, George Harvey Bone, is a big, bewildered Englishman who suffers from "dead moods." Textbooks would call him a schizophrenic. When George meets Netta, a beauty who has the torpid heartlessness of a late Roman Emperor, he collapses into a state of slavery which is emotionally uninhabitable. When Netta and her friends persecute George, just for the fun of it, his "spells," once mere vacant withdrawals from life, blossom into aggressive daydreams of murder...
...fight between George's civilized inhibitions and his insane (but not ir rational) compulsion to find peace by killing Netta, Author Hamilton builds a cold, sleek story which readers will ap preciate in proportion to 1) their taste for horror, 2) their taste for psychiatry...