Ladies in Retirement

The Great Broadway Melodrama Comes to Flaming Life on the Screen!
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Format:  DVD-R
item number:  HYQ6
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  • Rated: Unrated
  • Run Time: 1 hours, 32 minutes
  • Video: Color
  • Encoding: Region 0 (Worldwide)
  • Released: November 23, 2010
  • Originally Released: 1941
  • Label: Sony Pictures Home

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User Ratings: 83
Rating: B+ -- This gothic melodrama is well-crafted and involving. Full Review
Ozus' World Movie Reviews
Jan 21, 2011

Description by OLDIES.com:

As the paid companion to wealthy Leonora Fiske, Ellen Creed (Ida Lupino) has become accustomed to her employer's good humor and generosity. When her deranged sisters (played with great relish by Elsa Lanchester and Edith Barrett) are evicted from their lodgings in London, Ellen invites them to stay for a visit. As the visit turns into weeks, Leonora's patience is exhausted, and she orders the sisters, and Ellen, to leave. Desperate to protect her sisters and give them a secure place to live, Ellen takes drastic measures - then tells everyone that Leonora is on a trip, leaving her in charge of the house. But when the neighbors and Ellen's roguish cousin (Louis Hayward) become suspicious, she has more to worry about than just her sisters' welfare. This gothic suspense thriller boasts great comic performances plus an excellent dramatic role for Ida Lupino. Evelyn Keyes plays a supporting role as the love-struck housemaid. Newly remastered.

Product Description:

In this taut, creepy melodrama, a housemaid works as the companion of an aging, retired British actress. One day the maid (Ida Lupino) is visited by her two looney half sisters. The actress finds the slightly mad sisters intolerable and demands that they leave. Unfortunately, the maid realizes that if the sisters are sent away they will end up involuntarily committed to an insane asylum and so the maid kills the actress and lets the sisters stay. Things go well until a suspicious relative shows up and starts to investigate. Nominated for Oscars for Best Interior Decoration and Best Score, LADIES IN RETIREMENT is based upon a stage play that was in turn based upon the true story from 1886.

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  • Sales Rank: 35,627
  • UPC: 043396368439
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