The Strange Woman (1946)
Country: US
Technical: bw 100m
Director: Edgar G. Ulmer
Cast: Hedy Lamarr, George Sanders, Louis Hayward, Gene Lockhart
Synopsis:
In 1820s Maine amidst the lumber boom, a wanton girl grows up motherless, her father the town drunk, but she is determined that her beauty will secure her everything she wants. She proceeds to be more than one man's undoing.
Review:
The star actually had a hand in producing this fire and brimstone drama, pitching her performance somewhere between Scarlett O'Hara and a Forties femme fatale. The two-faced glee with which she transfers her affections from father to son to best friend's suitor smacks almost of nymphomania at times, in so far as that was playable back then. Alas, while Ulmer piles on the thunderstorms and Carmen Dragon provides insistent musical backing, Hayward and Sanders give unyielding performances as the supposedly lustful menfolk. The title is a Biblical reference to the adulteress, whose lips drip like honey, etc., for Lamarr develops a late obsession with eternal damnation, leaving her prey to a classic Hollywood repentant finish. Or is she just kidding? Strictly one for star-gazers.
Country: US
Technical: bw 100m
Director: Edgar G. Ulmer
Cast: Hedy Lamarr, George Sanders, Louis Hayward, Gene Lockhart
Synopsis:
In 1820s Maine amidst the lumber boom, a wanton girl grows up motherless, her father the town drunk, but she is determined that her beauty will secure her everything she wants. She proceeds to be more than one man's undoing.
Review:
The star actually had a hand in producing this fire and brimstone drama, pitching her performance somewhere between Scarlett O'Hara and a Forties femme fatale. The two-faced glee with which she transfers her affections from father to son to best friend's suitor smacks almost of nymphomania at times, in so far as that was playable back then. Alas, while Ulmer piles on the thunderstorms and Carmen Dragon provides insistent musical backing, Hayward and Sanders give unyielding performances as the supposedly lustful menfolk. The title is a Biblical reference to the adulteress, whose lips drip like honey, etc., for Lamarr develops a late obsession with eternal damnation, leaving her prey to a classic Hollywood repentant finish. Or is she just kidding? Strictly one for star-gazers.
Country: US
Technical: bw 100m
Director: Edgar G. Ulmer
Cast: Hedy Lamarr, George Sanders, Louis Hayward, Gene Lockhart
Synopsis:
In 1820s Maine amidst the lumber boom, a wanton girl grows up motherless, her father the town drunk, but she is determined that her beauty will secure her everything she wants. She proceeds to be more than one man's undoing.
Review:
The star actually had a hand in producing this fire and brimstone drama, pitching her performance somewhere between Scarlett O'Hara and a Forties femme fatale. The two-faced glee with which she transfers her affections from father to son to best friend's suitor smacks almost of nymphomania at times, in so far as that was playable back then. Alas, while Ulmer piles on the thunderstorms and Carmen Dragon provides insistent musical backing, Hayward and Sanders give unyielding performances as the supposedly lustful menfolk. The title is a Biblical reference to the adulteress, whose lips drip like honey, etc., for Lamarr develops a late obsession with eternal damnation, leaving her prey to a classic Hollywood repentant finish. Or is she just kidding? Strictly one for star-gazers.