Rose Hobart

Mystery

🎬 Critics Choice Nominee

Director Joseph Cornell

Status Released

Release Date 1936-12-09

Storyline

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.