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Kent Jones (written by)
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Martin Scorsese narrates this tribute to Val Lewton, the producer of a series of memorable low-budget horror films for RKO Studios... more | add synopsis
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Scorcese Analyzes Admires Fabulous World of Lewton more (8 total)

Cast

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Martin Scorsese ... Narrator (voice)

Elias Koteas ... Voice of Val Lewton (voice)
Roger Corman ... Himself - Interviewee
Dr. Glen Gabbard ... Himself - Interviewee
Kiyoshi Kurosawa ... Himself - Interviewee
Val E. Lewton ... Himself - Interviewee
Alexander Nemerov ... Himself - Interviewee
Ann Carter ... Herself - Interviewee (as Ann Carter Newton)
Geoffrey O'Brien ... Himself - Interviewee
Jacques Tourneur ... Himself - Interviewee (archive footage)

Robert Wise ... Himself - Interviewee (archive footage)

Alla Nazimova ... (archive footage) (as Nazimova)
Simone Simon ... (archive footage)
Ben Bard ... (archive footage)
Sir Lancelot ... (archive footage)
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Also Known As:
Martin Scorsese Presents: Val Lewton: The Man in the Shadows (USA) (complete title)
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Runtime:
USA:77 min | USA:77 min
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USA:TV-PG (TV rating)

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Orson Welles' voice is heard narrating the trailer of Citizen Kane (1941) as a brief clip of it is shown. more
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Features Anna Karenina (1935) more

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Scorcese Analyzes Admires Fabulous World of Lewton, 14 January 2008
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Author: Enrique Sanchez from Miami, FL

Strange how sometimes one does not always see what others see. That is the germ of the artist.

Scorcese clearly delves deeply into the world of Val Lewton, practically an unknown artist in the golden era of the movies which was sadly unlauded sufficiently during his law.

We see what so many of us probably didn't see or were not able to analyze as adeptly as Scorcese in Lewton's work. Certainly, these are not the grade A pictures we all know about, but Scorcese thrusts them into their well-deserved prominence by explaining how really fabulous Lewton's falsely relegated B-pictures they were. Sure they were low budget - but WHAT Lewton did was nothing short of miracles of mood, suspense and mystery, contrast and hue and the deep character development which exists within a movie and not necessarily a protagonist. We are shown, and it is explained just how Lewton worked his magic with shoestring budgets.

I've seen some of these movies, but never in this way...and after this, I will always bring with me the wonderful aura of the prodigious talent of Val Lewton.

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