Bedlam
Starring: Boris Karloff, Anna Lee, Billy House
Director: Mark Robson
Writer: Val Lewton, Mark Robson
Producer: Val Lewton
Bedlam is a 1946 American horror film directed by Mark Robson and starring Boris Karloff, Anna Lee and Richard Fraser, and was the last in a series of stylish horror B films produced by Val Lewton for RKO Radio Pictures. The film was inspired by William Hogarth's 1732–1734 painting series A Rake's Progress, and Hogarth was given a writing credit.
Trivia
- Mark Robson said he reproduced "much of Hogarth’s The Rake's Progress in our film; in fact, we virtually used Hogarth as our art director.
- The dialogue was an amalgam of all kinds of eighteenth-century characters, including Lord Sandwich and various others."
Previous Showings
6 Runs • 5 Festivals
2,444 tickets sold
Original Billings: 1 run (October 31, 1946)
Original Run: October 31, 1946 (Thursday - Saturday)
All runs on record (6):
- October 31, 1946 (Thursday - Saturday)Boris Karloff
- November 15 - 17, 2000 · 409 ticketsHorror 2000w/ I Walked with a Zombie
- March 28 - 30, 2007 · 561 ticketsFilm Noir, Val Lewton, 1930s musicals and more!w/ The Big Clock
- February 17 - 18, 2011 · 349 ticketsWinter 2011 Early Bette Davis, Val Lewton and morew/ The Body Snatcher
- April 28 - 30, 2017 · 733 ticketsThe Films of Val Lewton, every Fri-Sat-Sunw/ The Bad and the Beautiful
- October 3 - 4, 2024 · 392 ticketsFilm Noir plus Val Lewtonw/ Secret Beyond the Door