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Thesiger's best film roles are all macabre.
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Less well-known than
The Old Dark House and The Ghoul
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are his parts as Marley's undertaker
in the Alistair Sim version of Scrooge,
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the asthmatic industrial tycoon, swathed
in furs, in The Man in the White Suit,
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a 19th-century wraith
who must release his dead lover's soul
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from the body of a possessed girl in the
1948 British thriller A Place of One's Own,
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and the milk-toast Mr Hoover,
the silk-stocking killer
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of the 1938 Warner Bros
British production They Drive by Night.
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Pretorius's preoccupation
with the female being
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radiates an unhealthy, prurient interest.
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As the monster realises the implication
of the word "wife", Thesiger's glance
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suggests that Pretorius will be a most
interested spectator on the honeymoon.
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Whale had a good film editor in Ted Kent,
but Kent was the first to credit his director
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with pinpointing precisely
where and when to cut,