Rose Hobart

5.3

Genre: Mystery
Run time: 20 min
Premiere: 1936. December 9.

Director: Joseph Cornell
Starring: Rose Hobart Charles Bickford Noble Johnson Georges Renavent

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.