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Corridor of Mirrors

  • 1948
  • Not Rated
  • 1h 36m
IMDb RATING
6.4/10
907
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Eric Portman and Edana Romney in Corridor of Mirrors (1948)
DramaMystery

A man falls in love with a beautiful young woman and begins to suspect that he may have also loved her in a previous life.A man falls in love with a beautiful young woman and begins to suspect that he may have also loved her in a previous life.A man falls in love with a beautiful young woman and begins to suspect that he may have also loved her in a previous life.

  • Director
    • Terence Young
  • Writers
    • Rudolph Cartier
    • Edana Romney
    • Christopher Massie
  • Stars
    • Eric Portman
    • Edana Romney
    • Barbara Mullen
  • See production info at IMDbPro
  • IMDb RATING
    6.4/10
    907
    YOUR RATING
    • Director
      • Terence Young
    • Writers
      • Rudolph Cartier
      • Edana Romney
      • Christopher Massie
    • Stars
      • Eric Portman
      • Edana Romney
      • Barbara Mullen
    • 25User reviews
    • 15Critic reviews
  • See production info at IMDbPro
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    Eric Portman
    Eric Portman
    • Paul Mangin
    Edana Romney
    Edana Romney
    • Mifanwy
    Barbara Mullen
    Barbara Mullen
    • Veronica
    Hugh Sinclair
    Hugh Sinclair
    • Owen
    Bruce Belfrage
    Bruce Belfrage
    • Sir David Conway
    Alan Wheatley
    Alan Wheatley
    • Edgar Orsen
    Joan Maude
    Joan Maude
    • Caroline
    Leslie Weston
    • Mortimer
    Hugh Latimer
    Hugh Latimer
    • Bing
    John Penrose
    John Penrose
    • Brandy
    Christopher Lee
    Christopher Lee
    • Charles
    Lois Maxwell
    Lois Maxwell
    • Lois
    Mavis Villiers
    Mavis Villiers
    • Babs
    Thora Hird
    Thora Hird
    • Visitor In Tussauds
    Valentine Dyall
    Valentine Dyall
    • Counsel for Defence
    • (uncredited)
    Suzanne Gibbs
    • Gwendoline
    • (uncredited)
    Noel Howlett
    Noel Howlett
    • Psychiatrist
    • (uncredited)
    Gordon McLeod
    • Public Prosecutor
    • (uncredited)
    • Director
      • Terence Young
    • Writers
      • Rudolph Cartier
      • Edana Romney
      • Christopher Massie
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    User reviews25

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    8AAdaSC

    Love Re-incarnated

    Edana Romney (Mifanwy) receives a telegram to meet up with an ex-lover Eric Portman (Paul Mangin) in London at the Madame Tussauds Wax Museum. She arrives at the pre-arranged rendez-vous next to Marie Antoinette and as she waits, she daydreams……….and we are taken back in flashback to the days of her love affair with Portman. He is a wealthy artist with some definitely strange ideas. He lives in the past. Literally. And he believes Edana is part of his destiny. Theirs is a 400 year love affair which needs sorting out.

    It's a good-looking film with a huge house at the centre of the proceedings. It's atmospheric and the costumes are great. There is definitely an unworldly feel as the film develops and the story will keep you guessing as to what is going on in the mind of strange Eric Portman. The acting is good all round, including the minor characters, with a mention to singer Joan Maude (Caroline) who plays a crucial role. The dialogue is funny at times with Romney's father, Bruce Belfrage (Sir David), coming out with the classic "…hardest hard-on…". Listen out for it near the beginning of the film when Romney returns home to find Belfrage watching a film. It's hilarious.

    So, it's time to organize a Venetian ball…………just watch out if you are a female with long dark hair. You never know what type of nutter is in the area.
    5Prismark10

    A man out of time

    Terence Young made his directorial debut with Corridor of Mirrors, a strange Gothic romantic fantasy drama.

    Mifanwy (Edana Romney) a married mother is travelling from Wales to London to meet her lover.

    She goes to the Chamber of Horrors in Madame Tussaud's, her lover turns out to be one of the wax exhibits. We go to a flashback when Paul Mangin (Eric Portman) first meets young Mifanwy. Mangin is a man out of his time. Dressed in Edwardian clothes, goes about in a hansom cab and thinks he and Mifanwy were lovers in Renaissance Italy.

    Mifanwy is Mangin's ideal fantasy woman, a seducer who has spent centuries looking for his perfect muse. There has been others but he is obsessed with Mifanwy who is the closest to his desires. We see the steps that lead to him being accused of murder.

    There is an element of creakiness and archness in the acting that lets the film down. Portman is fine but Romney is the weak link. The production values are very good, the story is a little offbeat but it just does not come together well.
    6sibleybridges

    Great cinematography

    I saw that one of my favorite film critics Eddie Muller insisted that this be shown at one of his Noir City Film Festivals even though it wasn't a noir. He said it was too good looking and had been obscure for far too long to not show to film lovers. I have to agree that it looks fantastic.

    A woman who is already cheating on her husband decides to flirt with another man who is a weird dandy hipster obsessed with horse buggies and mirrors and speaks in obtuse quips. To up his weirdness, he's convinced he's a reincarnation of a 15th century member of the Borgias family.

    Apart from the standard 40s silly melodrama and the very strange flashback that is most of the movie, the cinematography was outstanding. Especially during the 15th century Venetian party where most of the interesting action occurs. The overall look felt very French and sure enough when I looked to see who had lensed it, it was a Frenchman named Andre Thomas who worked in pre WWII France and Germany before fleeing to England to work in the film industry.

    Watched on YouTube.
    6CinemaSerf

    Corridor of Mirrors

    This is an eerily effective drama from Terence Young. It all centres around Eric Portman's characterisation of "Mangin". An enigmatic man who arranges to meet the young "Mifanwy" (Edana Romney) who bears a striking resemblance to a woman whose portrait hangs on a wall in his home; a woman he claims to have loved centuries earlier. Could this be possible? What makes this interesting - despite the really quite static acting performances - is the way the story develops. It's quirky. It's darkly menacing - but not in a frightening may, more a sinister and grisly theme that allows us to speculate about what did - or didn't - happen, walking a thin line between history, fantasy and sanity before an ending that left me feeling rather sorry for just about everyone. The photography lends loads to the almost claustrophobic imagery; it's almost as if it were lit by candlelight, with very few fully illuminated scenes. The drawback is the acting, though - neither Portman nor Romney quite delivered as well as I would have liked, and the dialogue is wordy which does drag it down a bit at times. That said, it's a creepy and enjoyable mystery that rarely sees the light of day now, and is certainly worth a watch. Mr. Young's directorial debut, too.
    8hitchcockthelegend

    Even in my sleep he would be there watching me from the corridor of mirrors.

    Corridor of Mirrors is directed by Terence Young and adapted to screenplay by Rudolph Cartier and Edna Romney from the novel written by Chris Massie. It stars Eric Portman, Edana Romney, Joan Maude, Barbara Mullen, Alan Wheatley, Hugh Sinclair and Bruce Belfrage. Music is by Georges Auric and cinematography by Andre Thomas.

    A woman travels from Wales to Madame Tussauds in London for a rendezvous with her lover. The rest will be told in flashback…

    Laughter had a strange effect on him…

    Corridor of Mirrors is a hypnotic and nightmarish experience, not in that scared to death kind of way, but in a nightmare where nothing allows you to be comfortable, keeping you in a realm of purgatory, what is real – imagined – or otherwise? The crux of the story concerns a man, Paul Mangin (Portman), who lives in the past and is obsessed with Mifanwy Conway (Romney), who not only looks like the portrait of a lady that hangs in the Mangin palace, but on Mangin's insistence was his lover centuries in the past.

    Would you care to continue the adventure?

    What follows during the course of the story are subjects ranging from reincarnation, obsessive madness, fetish kinks, seduction, fantasist leanings and murder. To passionate romance, heartfelt regret and soul cleansing. The unusual story, unique maybe? Enjoys toying with audience expectations, even taking famous literary inspirations and fusing them into this Baroque world, with seasoning of the macabre for added spice. As the Mangin/Conway relationship develops, the tension becomes palpable, fear and trepidation vie for control over wistful yearnings. What will win out in the end?

    What's behind the curtain?

    The look, sound and feel on offer here is quite simply magnificent. This is Gothic noir nirvana. Young and Thomas shoot the film in what I think is an average of 99% shadows and low lights, it's the darkness in daylight effect as shards of light struggle to pierce the gloom through the Venetian blind slats. Candlelight, Scotch mist, moonbeams, canted angles and otherwise all play their atmospheric part, and then there is the backdrop and props…

    The Mangin palace is vast in its opulence, complete with the titular corridor of mirrors. Behind each mirror is something that links Mangin's obsession with the past, it is eeriness personified. Mannequins, wax work figures and dolls feature prominently, the Tussauds connection is the Chamber of Horrors, naturally. Spooky harp, spooky housekeeper (again, naturally), and Auric's musical score is a blend of the sinister with poetic whimsy. And the crowning sequence is a Venetian costume ball, a decadent soirée that looks magnificent, but craftily it asks just what is beneath the costume facade of it all?

    It's a little too bonkers and creaky in plot development at times, but it knows this and embraces the short comings to keep with the unstable off-kilter vibe. Unfortunately it's a difficult film to track down in good quality home format form, but if you can find a reliable source and you love Gothic noir or Baroque fantasies, then this is for you. 8/10

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      In his autobiography, Sir Christopher Lee clearly states that this was his first film, although in the same paragraph he says that the star of the film was Eric Porter, when it was really Eric Portman. While unsure of the mis-spelling of Eric Portman's surname in this autobiography, it is correct that this is Lee's debut movie. It was released in the U.K. March 10, 1948 and was not released in the United States until July 24, 1948.
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    • Release date
      • July 24, 1948 (United States)
    • Country of origin
      • United Kingdom
    • Official sites
      • Streaming on "DeCharly-CineNegro subtitulado en Español" YouTube Channel (Spanish subtitles)
      • Streaming on "The Mysterious Domain Movie Palace" YouTube Channel
    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • Коридор огледала/Koridor ogledala
    • Filming locations
      • Studios Radio Cinema, Paris, France(at the Studios Radio-Cinema Paris)
    • Production company
      • Apollo
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    • Runtime
      1 hour 36 minutes
    • Color
      • Black and White
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.37 : 1

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