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Director:
Robert Siodmak
Writers:
Arthur T. Horman (adaptation)
Bertram Millhauser (writer)
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Release Date:
December 1944 (USA) more
Genre:
Drama | Thriller more
Tagline:
His was a strange SECRET! Hers was a strange LOVE!
Plot:
In 1902 London, unhappily married Philip Marshall meets young Mary Gray, who is unemployed and depressed... more | add synopsis
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A Good Man,A Chance to Love and Murder more (7 total)

Cast

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Charles Laughton ... Philip Marshall

Ella Raines ... Mary Gray

Molly Lamont ... Edith Simmons
Stanley Ridges ... Insp. Huxley (as Stanley C. Ridges)
Henry Daniell ... Gilbert Simmons
Rosalind Ivan ... Cora Marshall
Dean Harens ... John Marshall
Raymond Severn ... Merridew
Eve Amber ... Sybil Packer
Maude Eburne ... Mrs. Packer
Clifford Brooke ... Mr. Packer
John Berkes ... Det. Sgt. Pennyfeather
Katherine Yorke ... Model
Rebel Randall ... Model
Barbara Gray ... Model
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Runtime:
85 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Color:
Black and White
Aspect Ratio:
1.37 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono (Western Electric Recording)
Certification:
Finland:K-16 | Sweden:15
Company:
Universal Pictures more

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A Good Man,A Chance to Love and Murder, 26 January 2005
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Author: Melvin M. Carter from United States

Unlike the grim dramas of Fritz Lang Edward G. Robinson played in (Scarlet Street and The Woman In the Window) Charles Laughtons' character of a genteel middle aged and middle class Englishman of the early 20th Century seems to be a figure of strength and solidity. The only thing to ruin this is a classic harridan of a wife at home. A loveless marriage that has produced a son the only point of agreement this couple has agreed to in the two decades + of this anchor on Mr. Marshall's soul. Then comes the heavenly disaster of love in the form of newly unemployed Ella Raines. No Joan Bennett sexpot/wench as in Woman In the Window,but a Good and proper English girl down on her luck who meets the kindly Mr. Marshall who at first is only doing the Good Deed that has earned him the respect of his neighborhood. But when you have the Nag from Hell(played to the nines by an icy shrewish Rosiland Ivans) and Henry Daniells as your pseudo-Gentleman stumblebum in the area Deep Trouble for the Good Man awaits. Add in Stanley Ridges performance as a Scotland Yard Inspector who Sherlock Holmes would respect as an equal,and you have a very distinct and classy journey down the Boulevard of Bad Choices for Good Reasons. Daniell's realization (too late)that Mr. Marshall has steel in his backbone is Movie Cool.

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