At The Projection Booth, our friends Mike White, Earl Jackson and Rahne Alexander discuss Phantom Lady (1944). “Rahne Alexander and Earl Jackson join Mike to follow an outrageous hat from a bar to a milliner’s shop, and to marvel at Elisha Cook Jr.’s drum solo, the closest thing to a sex scene 1944 allowed. Earl lays out how much darker Woolrich’s novel runs and traces Siodmak’s style back to his Weimar films. Rahne makes the case for a queer camp remake. Along the way: closed doors, a trial told in shorthand, echoes of The Big Clock (1948) and Black Angel (1946), and a happy ending that sounds like a life sentence.”

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