Obsession (1949 film) a body by dissolving it in acid. This had similarities to the John George Haigh case. Accordingly, the British Board of Film Censors refused to grant the film a certificate for a time and its release was held up. "Variety" wrote that the film is slow paced at first but becomes suspenseful. "The New York Times" called it "a first-rate study in suspense and abnormal psychology". Kendal Patterson of the "Los Angeles Times" described it as an early predecessor of "Fatal Attraction". Obsession (1949 film) Obsession, released in the US as The Hidden Room, is a 1949 British crime film
Boiler room (business) protection. A fictional "boiler room" brokerage firm was dramatized in the 2000 film "Boiler Room", and the play and film "Glengarry Glen Ross" show a similar boiler room operation selling real estate. The 2013 film "The Wolf of Wall Street", starring Leonardo DiCaprio, also involves a boiler-room investment business and is based on the memoir of convicted penny stock fraudster, Jordan Belfort. A 2010 episode of the television series "White Collar" depicted fictional conman Neal Caffrey infiltrating a group of corrupt brokers also peddling inflated penny stocks. Boiler room (business) In business, the term boiler room refers to an outbound