Tuesday, February 6, 2024

Dishonored Lady (1947)

This is a couple of steps removed from the Madeleine Smith scandal that inspired it, as well as the more faithful and recently reviewed by me David Lean picture 'Madeleine'. 'Dishonored Lady' takes a couple of story beats from the original tale and grafts them onto a forgettable, contemporary set nourish thriller. Hedy Llamar can't sustain it as the lead, she may have been a great beauty and a brilliant engineer, but I don't know if she was that much of an actress. Surprisingly bad. *

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