Madam X (1966)

Some friends of mine have been writing a musical based on this story, which is what occasioned me to view said movie. While taking a fair number of liberties with the original French play, you do get the basic story, which while a good one, is here rendered rather mediorically. It’s a Douglas Sirk movie without the benefit of Douglas Sirk, and made after the cycle of such melodramas had largely run its course. Forgettable, when it shouldn’t have been. 2 out of 5.