Rent Four Sided Triangle (1953)

3.1 of 5 from 55 ratings
1h 18min
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Synopsis:
Bill (Stephen Murray) and Robin (John van Eyssen) create a 'reproducer' - a machine that can exactly reproduce any object. The device proves a success, and in the wake of the celebrations Robin announces that he is to marry the beautiful Lena (Barbara Payton). Bill is distraught, and decides to use the reproducer to create another Lena for himself. Lena and the local GP, Dr. Harvey (James Hayter), have reservations about the plan but decide to help Bill. The experiment works - too well. The new Lena is so similar that she also falls for Robin. The obsessive Bill decides that he will have to take drastic measures to make the new Lena his own...
Actors:
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Directors:
Producers:
Michael Carreras, Alexander Paal
Writers:
Terence Fisher, Paul Tabori, William F. Temple
Studio:
DD Home Entertainment
Genres:
Classics, Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi & Fantasy
BBFC:
Release Date:
04/04/2005
Run Time:
78 minutes
Languages:
English LPCM Mono
Subtitles:
None
DVD Regions:
Region 2
Formats:
Pal
Aspect Ratio:
Full Screen 1.33:1 / 4:3
Colour:
B & W
Bonus:
  • Bonus film: The Right Person (1955)
  • Picture Galleries:
  • 1. Hammer press books and advertisements 1949-1956
  • 2. Early Hammer - behind the scenes
  • 3. Hammer glamour 1950-1954

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Springing a Surprise - Four Sided Triangle review by CH

Spoiler Alert
13/05/2020

With its first scene well-nigh a clone of Went the Day Well? - a narrator recollects events against shots of a village, a pub, a manor house - Four-Sided Triangle (1953) bodes well. An early Hammer production, its centrepiece, The Reproducer, makes a 3-D printer appear tame. Two young men have created a device which can makes copies of anything, even the woman for whom they share affections, Barbara Payton. She brings this film such brio as it has; tragically, it marked a bright spot in a life which became ever dimmer, until her early death in 1967. At only seventy-five minutes, it drags, sunk by explication - and, unlike those in charge of The Reproducer, one has no reluctance to press the stop button.

So why allot the disc four stars? There is a bonus feature, The Right Person (1954). Curiosity is well rewarded. For one thing, it is the first script by Philip Mackie, an ever-dependable television writer. It springs a surprise early on. The opening scene is in garish colour and takes in some of Copenhagen. What's more, it is filmed in Cinemascope. It feels as though the ground is being set for an epic chase. But no, everything cuts to the hotel room in which the newly-married Mrs. Jorgensen (Margo Lorenz, who also died young) puts down her bags after a hard day's shopping and awaits her husband, who should have been back by then, ready for dinner after a drink or two. Instead there arrives a man, insistent on waiting for him. Douglas Wilmer is brilliant at depicting an enigma who is, naturally enough, unwilling to give away too much about wartime bonds and fractures.

Tensions and doubts grow, so much that Mrs Jorgensen knocks back the national drink in one - several times..

To say anymore would be unfair, except that, amazingly, all this fills only twenty-five minutes: neither too little nor too much.

The Right Person had first been shown, with a different cast and in black and white, the year before on the BBC. We need more films which make good use of a neat idea rather than "opening it out", a phrase redolent of skin being pulled apart for an operation. The Right Person does not need surgery: it is now sixty-five years old and in perfect health.

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