Top cast:Mary Pickford,Wilfred Lucas,Charles Hill Mailes
Director:Karim Aïnouz
Genre:Fantasy
Region:Singapore
Year:1999
Storyline:13 - inauspiciously an unlucky number) is marked by a "Rooms to Let" sign.After a close-up of one window in the row house, a dissolve transports he camera into a small room.A fully-dressed, vacantly lost in thought, dormant Charles (or "Uncle Charlie") Oakley (Joseph Cotten) stiffly reclines on the bed (dead and coffin-like) during the day in his cell-like room in the seedy Philadelphia rooming house.Another central character, brilliant State Asylum neuro-surgeon Dr.Cukrowicz (Montgomery Clift) was detached and unaffected by the curse that Sebastian brought on others.He then purchased an elaborate set of cookware, place settings, and crystal, robbed a hospital""s morgue of various pieces of equipment (including a bone saw), and took everything to a wooded, private lakefront house.Originally, the screenplay was loosely based on Vincent Sheean""s best-selling autobiographical memoirPersonal History, but then it evolved into an original story/screenplay (crafted by screenwriter Charles Bennett and Joan Harrison).