by Hal Erickson
synopsis
Three talented screenwriters collaborated in adapting Evadne Price and Joan Roy Byford's play The Haunted Light to the screen as Phantom Light. This British chiller-diller-thriller begins with the mysterious murder of a lighthouse keeper. After his death, the region is plagued by shipwrecks, each heralded by a "phantom light" beaming from the lighthouse. Female detective Binnie Hale teams with new keeper Gordon Harker and navy officer Ian Hunter to solve the mystery. Directed with a sure and steady hand by Michael Powell, The Phantom Light is infinitely superior to the quota-quickie melodramas then flooding the British film market.
characteristics
- Ghosts
- Navy
- Missing
- Murder
- Phantom
- Supernatural
- Shipwreck
- Lighthouse
- Kill
- Investing
- Detective
- Criminal
- Absent
- Investment
- Investor
