The Strange Woman
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DVD-R Details
- Based On The Novel by Ben Ames Williams
- Rated: Not Rated
- Run Time: 1 hours, 39 minutes
- Video: Black & White
- Encoding: Region 0 (Worldwide)
- Released: July 27, 2004
- Originally Released: 1946
- Label: Alpha Video
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Hedy Lamarr | |
Performer: | George Sanders, Louis Hayward, Gene Lockhart, Hillary Brooke, Rhys Williams, June Storey, Moroni Olsen, Dennis Hoey & Kathleen Lockhart | |
Directed by | Edgar G. Ulmer | |
Edited by | Richard Wray & James E. Newcomb | |
Screenwriting by | Herb Meadow | |
Composition by | Carmen Dragon | |
Produced by | Hunt Stromberg & Jack Chertok |
Entertainment Reviews:
Description by OLDIES.com:
Gorgeous Jenny Hager (Hedy Lamarr) suffers from poverty and the abuse of her drunken father in the bustling port town of 1830's Bangor, Maine. The town elders place the girl in the home of wealthy aging businessman Isaiah Poster (Gene Lockhart) who comforts the the girl, first as a father, then as a husband. Jenny immediately begins to seduce her new stepson, Ephraim (Louis Hayward), who has loved her since childhood. Heartlessly playing father against son, she effectively destroys both men and emerges as the richest and most powerful woman in the community. Her dead husband is barely cold in the grave when the calculating widow turns her attentions to her handsome foreman, John Evered (George Sanders), and his sweet young fiancee (Hillary Brooke), whose engagement is the next victim of her cruel and lustful intentions. Emerging as a pillar of society with a new young husband, Jenny has no idea of the shocking fate which awaits her.
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Movie Lovers' Ratings & Reviews:
Based on 2595 ratings.
You get a film whose "heroine" makes Scarlett O'Hara look like a sunday school teacher! Hedy Lamarr is so gloriously evil and manipulative in "The Strange Woman." Director Edgar G. Ulmer got a break from his usual "poverty-row" productions (ie, "Detour") and got to throw a little money around on this production. His handling of Hedy's character--one moment scheming, the next fragile and fainting--makes this a great and sadly forgotten film. The print quality is ok on this DVD--a bit too contrasty in places and there are a couple transfer anomilies that are distracting. I believe this DVD may have come from a print prepared to make French language prints as at one point, the soundtrack goes completely dead and a church signboard that comes up is in French. The story takes place in Bangor, Maine, and I don't think they were bilingual, then or now. One last note--it's great to see the wonderful Hillary Brooke playing a genuinely nice character. The three male leads, Gene Lockhart, Louis Hayward, and George Sanders (also playing a genuinely nice person!), help round out an excellent cast.
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- UPC: 089218445193
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