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This Was a Woman (1948)

This Was a Woman (1948)

Drama Crime
Release Date: 1948, January 27
Directors: Tim Whelan
Countries: United Kingdom
Production: Excelsior Film Productions, Excelsior Film Productions
Cast: Barbara White, Cyril Raymond, Walter Fitzgerald, Joan Hickson, Gus McNaughton, Sonia Dresdel, Scott Forbes, Emrys Jones, Marjorie Rhodes, Kynaston Reeves, Celia Lipton, Lesley Osmond

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...