Rose Hobart

Name: Rose Hobart
Director: Joseph Cornell
Genre: Short, Mystery
Released: 1936-12-09
Duration: 1200000 s
Cast: Rose Hobart, Charles Bickford, Noble Johnson

Directed by Joseph Cornell

Not Rated

1936 20mShort, Mystery

5.654%5.4

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.