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Leonard Heideman (original screenplay)
Emmett Murphy (original screenplay)
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Release Date:
1 August 1957 (USA) more
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Was she guilty of the sins for which she stood accused? more
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John Garth (Sterling Hayden) is tried for critically wounding his wife Valerie (Anita Ekberg) and murdering... more | add synopsis
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Cast

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Sterling Hayden ... John Garth

Anita Ekberg ... Valerie Horvat
Anthony Steel ... Rev. Steven Blake
Peter Walker ... Herb Garth

John Wengraf ... Louis Horvat
Iphigenie Castiglioni ... Mrs. Lili Horvat
Jered Barclay ... Jim Mingo (as Jerry Barclay)
Robert Adler ... Lundy
Tom McKee ... Dave Carlin
Gage Clarke ... Lawyer Griggs
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femme fatale or victim of her husband?, 28 November 2004
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Author: tmwest from S. Paulo, Brazil

This is an interesting western about a husband (Sterling Hayden) who shoots his wife (Anita Ekberg) and her parents. The story is told in flashback from both husband and wife, each story contradicting the other. It gives a chance for Anita to act, a chance she did not have in most of her films, where what counted was her physical presence. She is at her best when she uses her power of seduction with Hayden's brother. Hayden is very good as John Garth, a man who fought in the war for the Union, where his job was to get confessions from prisoners. Even Anthony Steel, who was married to Anita in real life and never was much of an actor is good here as the Rev. Blake who leaves us in doubt if he is having an affair with Anita or not.

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