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After a promising start on Poverty Row quickies, Joseph H. Lewis (The Big Combo) made his first film at Columbia and established himself as a director to watch with this Gothic-tinged Hitchcockian breakout hit, which later proved so popular that Columbia promoted it to A-feature status.
The morning after Julia Ross (Nina Foch, Executive Suite) takes a job in London as secretary to rich widow Mrs Williamson Hughes (Dame Would possibly Whitty, The Lady Vanishes), she wakes up in a windswept Cornish mansion, having been drugged. Mrs Hughes and her volatile son, Ralph (George Macready, Gilda), try to gaslight Julia into believing she is Ralph s wife, Marion. Her belongings have been destroyed, the windows barred and the locals consider that she is mad. Will Julia have the ability to escape before she falls prey to the Hughes sinister charade? And what happened to the true Marion Hughes?
A briskly paced and brilliantly stylised mystery that grabs its audience from the start, My Name Is Julia Ross straight away cemented Lewis place within the noir pantheon, and anticipated the elaborate identity-based deceptions found in future classic thrillers like Alfred Hitchcock s Vertigo and Brian De Palma s Obsession.
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