Rose Hobart

(1936)

★ 5.5 IMDb · 50 votes

Genres: Mystery

Year: 1936

Runtime: 20 мин

Country: United States of America

Director: Joseph Cornell

Cast: Rose Hobart, Charles Bickford, Noble Johnson, Georges Renavent, Lupita Tovar

Plot

Cornell employs clips from 1931's jungle melodrama East of Borneo – more specifically, clips of its lead actress, Rose Hobart – to disquieting effect. Through Cornell's collage editing, Hobart becomes a singular object of desire and dread, trapped in an exotic paradise.