John Carradine - Bluebeard

mad killer terrorizes the street and shadows of Paris during the 19th century in this surprisingly well-made thriller with an excellent, restrained performance by John Carradine. The Bluebeard of the title is a brilliant painter tormented with a psychopathic urge to strangle his models. Determined to stop such a thing from happening again, Carradine becomes a puppeteer... until the sister of one of his victims helps bring about his downfall in a dramatic conclusion. Directed by Edgar G. Ulmer, a man whose talents were often ignored or not given the right opportunity, Bluebeard is an interesting example of how good a so-called "B-picture" can turn out