Can you identify this film?

Don't know, but this list might help:

https://letterboxd.com/thisisdrew/list/the-clock/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Who_Are_You,_Polly_Maggoo%3F

Any silent film scholars recognise this?

hey @tcm and fellow film fans, what is this row boat scene from that I played one of my songs behind while it was on and forgot to write down the title like a year and a half ago? my google search is sad. pic.twitter.com/W0Khb431Yv

— Caitlin Rose (@TheCaitlinRose) May 15, 2020

I saw a scene when I was a kid (coming in late from a kid's cricket match, I reckon) and, for whatever reason, I can't stop thinking about it. It could be TV series/film but...

It's set in a drawing room, probably Victorian but could be Edwardian, and a woman, in dress of the period, is having a pin cushion pushed into her cheek. In my mind's eye, the colours suggest a Hammer production but that might just be nostalgia. Anyone have any idea?

b&w, ~60s, english. man kidnaps another man and chains him up in a disused building. later he fills a bathtub full of acid and leaves it there, obviousy meant for killing and dissolving of the kidnapped man. only the kidnappee pulls the chain and drains the acid.

features someone like dirk bogarde or terence stamp. makes me think of The Collector or one of those.

Obsession (1949)?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obsession_(1949_film)

Shades of The Abominable Dr. Phibes, but that's in color ...

Alba's pick sure looks good. Wiki link is missing the closing parenthesis, here it is again.

before getting that tab sorted, i searched for "movie man kidnapped bathtub" and got

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/6/6f/Where_the_heart_is_poster.jpg

hmmm, close!

"movie man kidnapped bathtub acid" gets us closer to the right genre/vibe but no obvious hits. it seems like there was a real life 1940s serial killer, John Haigh, the "Acid Bath Murderer," who inspired a fair number of fictionalized accounts. ex. an episode of the radio program The Black Museum called "The Jar of Acid." apparently Hitchcock kicked around a version called Kaleidoscope.

oh, thanks alba, i may yet start thinking of you again as 'king of research' 8)

and i'm glad it turned out to be quite obscure!

yeah, there's an 'acid-bath' keyword in imdb but doesn't turn this up. in fact, imdb doesn't mention acid bath part of this at all.

there's an "a is for acid film" from 2002 that's about Haigh that i remember watching at the time. that one does turn up in the imdb keyword search (but is far too new)

Dante's Peak, while not exactly bathtub-based, is my go-to for such "acid cinema"

i may yet start thinking of you again as 'king of research' 8)

I've still got it! FWIW, this took just one Google search; was probably a bit of a fluke though. The clever thing is that all Wikipedia pages about films contain the word imdb. Can't remember if I was thinking that carefully when I constructed the search. It was the 10th result for me, so only just on the first page.

doesn't make the front page for me

duckduckgo (which i've been using recently because image search is easier) has it 3rd though.