The Strange Woman
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DVD Details
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: April 29, 2014
- Originally Released: 1946
- Label: Film Chest
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Hedy Lamarr, George Sanders & Louis Hayward | |
Performer: | Gene Lockhart, Hillary Brooke, Rhys Williams, June Storey, Moroni Olsen, Dennis Hoey & Kathleen Lockhart | |
Directed by | Edgar G. Ulmer | |
Screenplay by | Herb Meadow | |
Original story by | Ben Ames Williams | |
Composition by | Carmen Dragon | |
Produced by | Hunt Stromberg & Jack Chertok | |
Director of Photography: | Lucien Andriot |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 2/5 --
The production is strange, but for the wrong reasons.
Film Threat
Despite its higher budget and starrier cast, the tale is no less mad than Ulmer's Skid Row hallucinations
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CinePassion
Rating: C+ --
Should suit the many fans of Hedy Lamarr.
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Ozus' World Movie Reviews
Grim look at an evil femme fatale and the men she lures into murder, it is far from Ulmer's best.
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Classic Film and Television
Product Description:
Hedy Lamarr is very alluring in this sordid romantic saga based on the book by Ben Ames Williams. She plays Jenny, a lusty, sociopathic lass in the wilds of 18th Century Bangor, Maine, who uses her beauty to snare a local, rich, middle-aged businessman (Gene Lockhart). She then seduces his weak-willed son (Louis Hayward) and later goes after John (George Sanders), a tall, dark, handsome woodsman engaged to her friend, Mae (Hillary Brooke). For a period piece made in the 1940s, this film is briskly paced, action-packed, and unusually erotic, courtesy the assured direction of low-budget genius Edgar G. Ulmer (DETOUR, BLUEBEARD) in one of his rare big-budget projects. Highlights include a forbidden embrace amid a raging lightning storm, and Jenny allowing herself to be beaten by her alcoholic father (Dennis Hoey), and then showing off her whip marks to arouse Mr. Poster. ALL ABOUT EVE fans will delight in seeing their Addison De Witt (Sanders) looking uncomfortably overeducated in the part of a robust New England woodsman.