Rent The Woman in Question (1950)
3.5 of 5 from 60 ratings
1h 24min
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- Synopsis:
When a fairground fortune-teller, Agnes (Jean Kent), is found strangled in her apartment, the police interview the people around her, but quickly establish that everyone saw the murdered woman in a different way. Whereas struggling magician Bob Baker (Dirk Bogarde) knew her as a vindictive gin-soaked troublemaker, Mr Pollard (Charles Victor) was so enamoured with the kind, helpless war widow that he gave her one of his prize parrots for company. Agnes' sister Catherine (Susan Shaw) testifies that Agnes was never one to show sisterly love and tried to seduce her fiancee, but the evidence of the housekeeper (Hermione Baddeley) paints a totally different picture of the two sisters. Only when the police discover the true nature of the murdered woman, and the motive for her murder, will they be able to unmask the killer... - Actors:
- Dirk Bogarde, John McCallum, Susan Shaw, Hermione Baddeley, Charles Victor, Duncan Macrae, Lana Morris, Joe Linnane, Vida Hope
- Directors:
- Anthony Asquith
- Producers:
- Teddy Baird
- Writers:
- John Cresswell
- Studio:
- Odeon
- Genres:
- Classics, Thrillers
- Collections:
- Top 10 British Actresses of the 1940s, Top Films
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Reviews (1) of The Woman in Question
A superb murder mystery showing various points of view after a murder - very clever - The Woman in Question review by PV
I loved this film, from 1950 and all the better for it. Genuinely tense and exciting and VERY clever - it depicts a murder from various points of view which are shown to be different and is really therefore a study in witness bias. NEVER believe anyone!
The cast is classy. Dirk Bogarde in I think his first ever role doing a dodgy American accent (but that is fine - no spoilers but it fits the plot and backstory of his character). Classy female actors play the sisters and I loved the way they alternated according to which witness point of view was being explored.
Told largely in flashback to various witness accounts - very clever indeed and so well-written and acted.
The boy Alfie was great - not credited here. Played by Bobbie Scroggins (great name!) whose last film appearance as as a page boy in the first Titanic film, a Night to Remember in 1958. I hope his life went well for him. Just see what happens to some child actors/stars like Bobby Driscoll, dead of drugs at 31 (last role was the voice of Disney Peter Pan 1952).
A superb old film back before everything had to be a woke preachy lecture.
4 stars.
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