

Direction
Dickinson's inventive camera work on a shoestring.
Acting
Atwill's sweaty desperation is magnetic.

Director
Thorold Dickinson
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Thorold Dickinson later became Britain's first professor of film; this was his feature debut after cutting his teeth on Spanish Civil War documentaries.
The Irish War of Independence backdrop was still politically radioactive in 1937—British audiences would have recognized the uncomfortable mirror.