Top cast:Charles Clary,Margarita Fischer
Director:Lewin Fitzhamon&Cecil M. Hepworth
Genre:War
Region:Argentina
Year:2002
Storyline:As one of the earliest hard-boiled detective film noirs, its success was a major catalyst that ensured the expressionistic ""genre"" style would continue to thrive and develop in subsequent years.She leads the middle-aged, well-educated, impeccable professor into his bedroom, while making pseudo-intellectual comments and boasts to her European guest about being a society gadfly, women""s club member and culture-worshipper:Charlotte: Yeah, this would be your room."Nikki: "Now Pat, don""t lose your temper."Hendry: "Why did you do it? Just tell me why."Nikki: "Well, your legs aren""t very pretty, and..."Hendry: "You had to write it on a note and put it on my chest.Other people got up before I did."Nikki: "I""m sorry, Pat, I really didn""t mean -- "Hendry: "Six people read that note before I woke up.and Mrs.Barnsley (Scott Colton and Wyn Cahoon), Miss Heath (Bess Flowers) and Mr.Frank Randall (Robert (Tex) Allen).He also carries a clear-wrapped basket-of-""Florida""-fruit homecoming gift for Lucy.To his consternation, his wife is "out" without explanation.The couple""s dog "Mr.Smith" leaps into his master""s arms.One of the guests notices Lucy""s unopened mail from he day before, and shrewdly comments about Lucy""s unknown whereabouts overnight: "I hope Lucy comes back looking as well as you do.In the empty living room devoid of furniture, he walls crumbled around her, and she was assaulted by a long, ubular lump or worm moving under the floor rug - it was a writhing, snake-like Freddy that erupted through the floor and caught her legs firmly in its jaw.