A Woman's Vengeance
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Charles Boyer and Ann Blyth
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Directed by | Zoltan Korda |
Produced by | Zoltan Korda |
Screenplay by | Aldous Huxley |
Based on | "The Gioconda Smile" by Aldous Huxley |
Starring | Charles Boyer |
Music by | Miklós Rózsa |
Cinematography | Russell Metty |
Edited by | Jack Wheeler |
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Distributed by | Universal Pictures |
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96 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Budget | $1.3 million[1] |
A Woman's Vengeance is a 1948 American film noir drama mystery film directed by Zoltán Korda and starring Charles Boyer, Ann Blyth, Jessica Tandy, Cedric Hardwicke, Rachel Kempson, and Mildred Natwick. The screenplay by Aldous Huxley was based on his 1922 novelette "The Gioconda Smile". The film was released by Universal-International.
Plot
Henry Maurier rebounds from the death of wife Emily by marrying a much younger woman, Doris, upsetting another woman, Janet, who is in love with him. Suspicions grow that Henry might have hurried along his wife's death with poison, until eventually he finds himself condemned to death for a murder he didn't commit.
Cast
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- Charles Boyer as Henry Maurier
- Ann Blyth as Doris Mead
- Jessica Tandy as Janet Spence
- Cedric Hardwicke as Dr. James Libbard
- Mildred Natwick as Nurse Caroline Braddock
- Cecil Humphreys as General Spence
- Hugh French as Robert Lester
- Rachel Kempson as Emily Maurier
- Valerie Cardew as Clara
- Carl Harbord as Leslie Blake
- John Williams as Prosecuting Counsel
- Leyland Hodgson as First Warder
- Ola Lorraine as Malsey
- Harry Cording as Chauffeur McNabb
Radio adaptation
A Woman's Vengeance was presented on Lux Radio Theatre March 22, 1948. Boyer and Blyth reprised their original roles in the adaptation.[2]
References
External links
- Lua error in Module:WikidataCheck at line 28: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value). A Woman's Vengeance at IMDb
- A Woman's Vengeance at the American Film Institute Catalog
- A Woman's Vengeance at the TCM Movie Database
- A Woman's Vengeance at Letterboxd
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- Articles with short description
- 1948 films
- English-language films
- Universal Pictures films
- 1940s mystery drama films
- American mystery drama films
- American black-and-white films
- Films based on works by Aldous Huxley
- Films with screenplays by Aldous Huxley
- Films scored by Miklós Rózsa
- Films directed by Zoltán Korda
- Films set in England
- Films set in the 1930s
- 1948 drama films
- 1940s English-language films
- 1940s American films
- 1940s drama film stubs