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Thursday, April 3, 2025

If I Should Die Before I Wake (Carlos Hugo Christensen, 1952)

Néstor Zavarce and Maria A. Troncoso in If I Should Die Before I Wake

Cast: Néstor Zavarce, Bianca del Prado, Floren Delbene, Homero Carpena, Enrique de Pedro, Virginia Romay, Marisa Nuñez, Maria A. Troncoso, Marta Quintela. Screenplay: Alejandro Casona, based on a story by Cornell Woolrich. Cinematography: Pablo Tabernero. Production design: Gori Muñoz. Film editing: José Gallego. Music: Julián Bautista. 

This handsomely filmed adaptation of a story by Cornell Woolrich about a boy who attempts to catch a serial killer preying on little girls at his school somewhat gratuitously casts the story as a fable. It generates suspense but sometimes stretches plausibility.