In the too much long list of forgotten masterpieces, there's that incredible "Uncle Silas", an expressionnist adaptation of Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu's novel. Everything is perfect in Charles Frank direction. The casting is perfect, Jean Simmons is outstanding as the young woman threatened by her very nasty family and especially by her french Madame played by Katina Praxinou completely possessed. And the camera work is so virtuoso being close to the nasty characters' attacks causing panic to Jean Simmons. Add wonderful settings filmed in depth of field and there's a pure masterpiece of british gothic cinema. Mysteriously, "Uncle Silas" is one of the rare movie shot by Charles Frank, born in Belgium. I really wish to see a restored print in theater of this forgotten gem.
Review of The Inheritance
