Dead Ringer

Dead Ringer (1964)

What Bette Davis does to Bette Davis and to Karl Malden and Peter Lawford in DEAD RINGER is just what "Baby Jane" people will adore!

The working class twin sister of a callous wealthy woman impulsively murders her out of revenge and assumes the identity of the dead woman. But impersonating her dead twin is more complicated and risky than she anticipated.

Date of release
1964-01-29
TMDB
6.9 / 10 (117)
Runtime
1h 56m
Genres
Crime, Drama, Horror
Director
Paul Henreid

Casting

Interesting facts

Dead Ringer is a 1964 American psychological thriller directed by Paul Henreid and starring Bette Davis, Karl Malden, Peter Lawford, Philip Carey and Jean Hagen in her final film role. It is a remake of the 1946 Mexican film La Otra. Davis portrays a woman who murders and impersonates her own, wealthier identical twin sister. The soundtrack is by André Previn and the cinematography by Ernest Haller.

Production

The film is a remake of the 1946 Mexican film, La Otra, directed by Roberto Gavaldón and starring Dolores del Río. It was remade again in 1986 as Killer in the Mirror, a television movie starring Ann Jillian.

The film takes place in Los Angeles and Beverly Hills. The interior scenes were shot inside and outside the grounds of the Greystone Mansion in Beverly Hills. The bar scene was filmed at the corner of Temple and Figueroa in downtown Los Angeles. The burial scene was shot at the Rosedale Cemetery in Los Angeles.

The jazz combo in Edie's Bar was composed of electronic organist Perry Lee Blackwell and drummer Kenny Dennis, both noted musicians, but uncredited in the film. Blackwell also appears as a lounge singer in the 1959 romantic comedy Pillow Talk.

This was the final film of cinematographer Ernest Haller. He had created the trick process shots in A Stolen Life, and he improved upon the process here. Makeup artist Gene Hibbs was hired because of his unique talent for making older actresses look younger through a "painting" technique.

The film was directed by actor Paul Henreid, Davis' co-star in the 1942 romantic drama Now, Voyager. Monika Henreid, one of his two daughters, plays Janet, the maid.

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