Along with The Day The Earth Stood Still in 1950, and Spellbound from 1945, another movie to feature the sound of a Theremin is The Lost Weekend, also from 1945.
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I’m sure you recognize Frank Faylen, who played Ernie Bishop, the taxi cab driver in It’s a Wonderful Life. I inserted the transition after Faylen says “Goodnight” and I chopped out Ray Milland’s escape from the alcoholic ward.
Great stuff with the mouse and bat! I wonder if director Billy Wilder enlisted the services of the technicians at Universal, who did the bats for the Dracula movies?
Faylen is great as an evil orderly! I’ve never seen “The Lost Weekend” all the way through!