Rose Hobart (1936)
Directed by Joseph Cornell · 20 min · Mystery
4.9 TOPICAL score · #6,185 of 6,776 films
Vote for it on the board →Cornell employs clips from 1931's jungle melodrama East of Borneo – more specifically, clips of its lead actress, Rose Hobart – to disquieting effect. Through Cornell's collage editing, Hobart becomes a singular object of desire and dread, trapped in an exotic paradise.
Rose Hobart (1936, directed by Joseph Cornell) has a TOPICAL score of 4.9 - ranked 6,185 of the 6,776 films TOPICAL scores. It scores highest on cast and audience, and lowest on awards. Audiences: TMDB 5.5/10 (50 ratings). Wikipedia covers it in 4 languages, and the Library of Congress chose it for the National Film Registry.
Why this score
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- AudienceTMDB 5.5/10 (50 ratings)
- Awards0 wins, 0 nominations
- ImpactWikipedia articles in 4 languages · National Film Registry
- Still read1,128 Wikipedia readers in the last 60 days
Starring: Rose Hobart, Charles Bickford (actor #1,092), Noble Johnson, Georges Renavent