This Was a Woman (1948)

5.7/10 • 102 min • Crime Drama

Overview

The woman here is Sylvia Russell: power mad with set goals. In order to achieve those goals she is sadistically devoted to her son and daughter, able to possess and direct them. She subtly ruins her daughter's marriage by corrupting a servant girl and, then, uses her to compromise her son-in-law; slowly breaks her bumbling, unambitious husband's confidence...

Cast

Sonia Dresdel

Walter Fitzgerald

Emrys Jones

Barbara White

Fenella Russell

Scott Forbes

Dr. Valentine Christie (billed as "Julian Dallas")

Cyril Raymond

Marjorie Rhodes

Joan Hickson

Kynaston Reeves

Gus McNaughton

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