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Young Jenny Hager pushes a boy, Ephraim Poster, into a river knowing he cannot swim. She is prepared to let him drown until Judge Saladine happens to walk by, at which point Jenny jumps into the water and takes credit for saving the boy's life. Years later, Jenny has grown to be beautiful but equally disturbed and manipulative, though she hides ...
29. Feb. 2020 · Beautiful Jenny Hager finds she can always get what she wants from the men in the 1820's port of Bangor, Maine. Freed by the death of her drunkard father she...
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The Strange Woman is directed by Edgar G. Ulmer who also co-writes the screenplay with Hunt Stromberg and Herb Matthews from the novel of the same name written by Ben Ames Williams. It stars Hedy Lamarr, George Sanders, Louis Hayward, Gene Lockhart, Hilary Brooke, Rhys Williams and June Storey. Music is by Carmen Dragon and cinematography by Lucien N. Andriot.
H edy Lamarr plays Jenny Hager, one of the cruelest women ever put on film, in Edgar Ulmer’s euphemistically titled The Strange Woman, set in Bangor, Maine, in 1824, when America was still a baby and traveling revival meetings warned of eternal damnation. In the mid-forties, Ulmer was delighting in female malice, and if Vera from his noir ...
14. Apr. 2012 · You see, Hedy Lamarr portrays here a woman who, somewhat on the run from an abusive and drunken father, runs to her beau’s home. Unfortunately, he isn’t home- being abroad, but his father (Gene Lockhart) is. In an effort to provide a safe haven for Jenny (Lamarr), it is decided in a meeting of the town elders for Hayward to marry the much ...
Film Review. O ne of cinema's darker and more disturbing explorations of sociopathy and sexuality, The Strange Woman is unusual in that it is a period melodrama made in the style of a classic film noir thriller. It was one of a handful of films made by Edgar G. Ulmer that contributed to the director's belated reappraisal by the French film ...
I think watching The Strange Woman has convinced me of her incredible acting capabilities. The film still emphasizes her beauty, but the character she plays is so conniving and calculating that every arch of her eyebrow feels like a stab wound. She almost reminds me of a pre-code character in the way she methodically uses her sexuality as a ...
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