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
Madame Jealousy Madame Jealousy Madame Jealousy is a 1918 American silent allegorical drama film directed by Robert G. Vignola and written by George V. Hobart and Eve Unsell. The film stars Pauline Frederick, Thomas Meighan, Frank Losee, Charles Wellesley, Isabel O'Madigan, and Elsie MacLeod. The film was released on February 4, 1918, by Paramount Pictures. As described in a film magazine, always ready to wreck the happiness of human beings, Jealousy (Frederick) selects Charm (MacLeod) and Valor (Meighan) as her two victims. She is almost successful at bringing about her desires, but the arrival of the child Happiness overcomes all disagreements. Jealousy