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The Val Lewton Season: Bedlam

BBC Two
on BBC Two England

starring
Boris Karloff Anna Lee.
This classic from the Val Lewton stable was inspired by a Hogarth print of the notorious
18th-century asylum, St Mary's of Bethlehem. Boris
Karloff plays the sadistic Master Sims , so bent on preserving his niche of power that he arranges to have the troublesome Nell Bowen incarcerated in the asylum to stop her exposing his tyranny. A chilling, superb reconstruction of a hard and pitiless age....
Screenplay by CARLOS KEITH and MARK ROBSON Produced by VAL LEWTON Directed by MARK ROBSON
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Contributors

Unknown:
Boris Karloff
Unknown:
Anna Lee.
Unknown:
Master Sims
Unknown:
Nell Bowen
Unknown:
Carlos Keith
Unknown:
Mark Robson
Produced By:
Val Lewton
Directed By:
Mark Robson
Master Sims:
Boris Karloff
Nell Bowen:
Anna Lee
Lord Mortimer:
Billy House
Hannay:
Richard Fraser
Gilded Boy:
Glenn Vernon
Sidney Long:
Ian Wolfe
Oliver Todd:
Jason Robards
John Wilkes:
Leland Hodgson
Dorothea the Dove:
Joan Newton
Mistress Sims:
Elizabeth Russell
Source: Radio Times

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