Four Sided Triangle
Four Sided Triangle is a British B movie from 1953. That’s two if not three knocks against it straight away. Look it up in the books and you’ll see it generally doesn’t get very good reviews. And yet it’s a really interesting film from all sorts of approaches. It’s a kind of tweedy Frankenstein story, set in the bucolic English countryside, and introduced by a decent chap, a local doctor (James Hayter) who with rounded vowel sounds and in a voice like warm gravel recounts the story of two boys and a girl. Perhaps Robin and Bill were rivals for Lena’s affection even as kids, the flashback structure tells us, before Dr Harvey … Read more
