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Cast a Dark Shadow is a 1955 British suspense film noir directed by Lewis Gilbert and written by John Cresswell, based on the 1952 play Murder Mistaken by Janet Green. [2] It stars Dirk Bogarde, Margaret Lockwood, Kay Walsh, Kathleen Harrison and Robert Flemyng.
Cast a Dark Shadow. Edward "Teddy" Bare is a delusional psychotic with a lust for wealth, older women and murder. Having committed what he thinks is the perfect murder of his elderly wife; Teddy sets his sights on new targets when her fortune goes elsewhere.
Overview. Edward "Teddy" Bare is a ruthless schemer who thinks he's hit the big time when he kills his older wife, believing he will inherit a fortune. When things don't go according to plan, Teddy sets his sights on a new victim: wealthy widow Freda Jeffries.
After one year of marriage, fortune hunter Edward Bare, who is affectionately referred to as Teddy (as in "teddy bear") by his older, wealthy wife, Monica manages to kill her, making it look like an accidental death on her part, which it is eventually ruled as by the coroner.
In Lewis Gilbert’s Cast a Dark Shadow, the cold, conniving Edward Bare (yes, “Teddy Bare”), played by Dirk Bogarde, is determined to inherit a dead wife’s money — any wife will do as long as she’s loaded. His first attempt fails not because he didn’t kill her (he did) but because wife Monica (Mona Washbourne) had left all her ...
When things don't go according to plan, Teddy sets his sights on a new victim: wealthy widow Freda Jeffries. Unfortunately for the unscrupulous criminal, Freda is much more guarded and sassy than his last wife, making separating her from her money considerably more challenging.
1955 Directed by Lewis Gilbert. No woman could resist his sinister charm! Edward “Teddy” Bare is a ruthless schemer who thinks he’s hit the big time when he kills his older wife, believing he will inherit a fortune. When things don’t go according to plan, Teddy sets his sights on a new victim: wealthy widow Freda Jeffries.
