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This Was a Woman is a 1948 British crime film directed by Tim Whelan and starring Sonia Dresdel, Walter Fitzgerald and Emrys Jones. [1] It was made at the Riverside Studios with sets designed by the art directors Ivan King and Andrew Mazzei. [2] Based on a successful play by former film actress Joan Morgan, [3] its plot concerns an outwardly ...
This Was a Woman: Directed by Tim Whelan. With Sonia Dresdel, Barbara White, Walter Fitzgerald, Cyril Raymond. A wife whose goal is power begins a game of manipulation that insidiously destroys her family.
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- Crime, Drama
- Tim Whelan
- 1948-11-29
Jan 4, 2024 · English. A wife whose goal is power begins a game of manipulation that insidiously destroys her family. Addeddate. 2024-01-04 18:26:34. Identifier. this-was-a-woman-1948. Scanner.
Edward B. Jarvis. Sonia Dresdel, Walter Fitzgerald, Emrys Jones, Barbara White, Scott Forbes, Celia Lipton, Marjorie Rhodes. “ I would have enjoyed power,” says Sylvia Russell (Sonia Dresdel), the manipulative matriarch who succeeds in destroying her household in Tim Whelan’s This Was a Woman. Perhaps a warning to a society in which women ...
Summaries. A wife whose goal is power begins a game of manipulation that insidiously destroys her family. Sylvia Russell is power-mad and has some 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 ...
This Was a Woman. Page 1 of 6, 11 total items. To achieve her own ambitious goals, a woman destroys her family by ruining her daughter's marriage and poisoning her husband.
- Crime, Drama
This Was a Woman is a 1948 British crime film directed by Tim Whelan and starring Sonia Dresdel, Walter Fitzgerald and Emrys Jones. It was made at the Riverside Studios with sets designed by the art directors Ivan King and Andrew Mazzei. Based on a successful play by former film actress Joan Morgan, its plot concerns an outwardly respectable family dominated by a murderous matriarch.
