The Queen Of Spades (DVD)

Based upon a short ghost story by celebrated Russian author Alexander Pushkin, The Queen Of Spades is legendary filmmaker Thorold Dickinson's most accomplished piece of work. Hailed by Martin Scorsese as an absolute masterpiece, The Queen Of Spades, stands up as a groundbreaking and unique example of the golden age of British filmmaking. Surreal, emotionally intense and genuinely creepy, The Queen Of Spades is an unforgettable experience that feasts the eyes with strange symbolism and haunts the mind with unease. Starring Anton Walbrook (The Red Shoes) and Dame Edith Evans (Scrooge, Tom Jones) it remains an atmospheric and macabre classic like no other. An army officer has become obsessed with playing cards. Convinced that an elderly countess possesses the secret of winning every game, the young officer's obsession leads him into a satanic world of madness, mayhem and murder where death is only the beginning.