So Long at the Fair

So Long at the Fair US rerelease title The Black Curse is a 1950 British thriller film directed by Terence Fisher and Anthony Darnborough, and starring Jean Simmons and Dirk Bogarde. It was adapted from the 1947 novel of the same name by Anthony Thorne. The general story is a version of what appears to be a 19thcentury urban legend, which has inspired several fictional works. Maybe You Will Remember told in Alvin Schwartzs Scary Storiesand the episode Into Thin Air of the TV show Alfred Hitchcock Presents were based on the same tale.

In 1889, young Englishwoman Vicky Barton Jean Simmons and her brother Johnny David Tomlinson arrive in Paris to see the Exposition Universelle. This is Vickys first time in Paris, and after checking into a hotel, she drags her tired brother to dinner and the famous Moulin Rouge. She finally retires for the night, while Johnny has a latenight drink. When English painter George Hathaway Dirk Bogarde drops off his girlfriend, Rhoda ODonovan Honor Blackman, and her mother Betty Warren at the hotel, he asks Johnny for change for a 100 franc note to pay a carriage driver Johnny loans him 50 francs and gives him his name and room number.The next morning, Vicky finds a blank wall where Johnnys room used to be. When she questions hotel owner and manager Madame Herv Cathleen Nesbitt, the latter claims she arrived alone. The room number now adorns the common bathroom. Madame Hervs brother Narcisse Marcel Pontin and the day porter Eugene Deckers back up her story. ........

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