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Director:
Basil Dearden
Writers:
Catherine Arley (novel)
Robert Muller (screenplay) ...
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Release Date:
27 August 1964 (West Germany) more
Genre:
Crime | Drama | Thriller more
Tagline:
IT'S SO EASY TO SET FIRE TO "A WOMAN OF STRAW" (original ad - all caps)
Plot:
Tyrannical but ailing tycoon Charles Richmond becomes very fond of his attractive Italian nurse, Maria... more | add synopsis
Awards:
Nominated for BAFTA Film Award. more
User Comments:
Music soothes the savage breast. more

Cast

  (Complete credited cast)

Gina Lollobrigida ... Maria Marcello

Sean Connery ... Anthony 'Tony' Richmond
Ralph Richardson ... Charles Richmond
Alexander Knox ... Detective Inspector Lomer
Johnny Sekka ... Thomas
Laurence Hardy ... Baynes, the butler
Peter Madden ... Yacht Captain
Danny Daniels ... Fenton
Noel Howlett ... Assistant Solicitor
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Douglas Wilmer ... Dr. Murray (scenes deleted)
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Additional Details

Runtime:
122 min | Argentina:118 min | Germany:117 min
Country:
UK
Language:
English
Color:
Color (Eastmancolor)
Aspect Ratio:
1.85 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono

Fun Stuff

Trivia:
The white tuxedo Sean Connery wears in this film is the same one he would later wear in the pre-title sequence of Goldfinger (1964). The jacket even had the initials "AR" sewn on the inside, which stand for his character's name Anthony Richmond. more
Movie Connections:
Referenced in Ken Adam: Designing Bond (2000) (V) more
Soundtrack:
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8 out of 10 people found the following comment useful:-
Music soothes the savage breast., 12 July 2004
Author: dbdumonteil

Catherine Arley's novel and the play which followed both used to take place in Germany,just after the war.The nurse character was a survivor who had absolutely nothing left and thus had nothing to lose.She read a "job" advertisement -very special- in a paper and she wound up in a noble's desirable mansion.

Hence the changes:the nurse becomes Italian,and the greybeard and his nephew English.It does not make a big difference,and the movie is entertaining anyway.Too slow in its first part,it gains momentum later,and by the last third he's hit its stride:there are almost scary scenes :the old man's sunglasses,the cigarette in the car,the detective in the dead's wheelchair.Lollobrigida,Connery -at "Goldfinger' time- and Richardson give effective performances and the plot is full of suspense.

The old fogey digs classical music which he keeps listening to all day;it does not soothe the savage breast,as far as he's concerned,but Gina does.

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