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Robert StevensonDishonored Lady (1947)

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This movie is part of the collection: Feature Films

Director: Robert Stevenson
Production Company: Mars Film Corporation
Audio/Visual: sound, b&w
Keywords: Crime

Creative Commons license: Public Domain

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Reviewer: mdebutante - - June 2, 2008
Subject: Better Than Sex in the City!
Don't laugh, but I could really relate to Madeline Damian (the Lamar character)! How many of us when faced with temptation, especially if we have a painful past, won't give in in order to ease the pain! Of course, it's not until we face our own personal demons that we even have a chance for 'true love' and happiness. Should be shown in every 12 Step group!

Also, got to see "the Wicked Witch of the West", and "Mrs.Howell"!

Reviewer: Marchhaire - - June 25, 2007
Subject: Loved it
Hedy Lammar is one of those women that makes even the most mundane movement terrible elegant she is beautiful and has the grooviest accent.

Reviewer: sciwriter - - June 24, 2007
Subject: Outstanding!
I extend special thanks to Internet Archive. Hedy Lammar's performance in this movie was expectedly brilliant. Born in Czechoslovakia, she came a long way in Hollywood after posing nude in a movie made in pre-Hitler Germany.

Reviewer: manavkaushik - - April 20, 2007
Subject: An intense drama
Edmund North's gripping screenplay is based on the much-publicized murder trial of Madeleine Smith, a young Scottish woman accused of murdering her lover in 1857. David Lean also told the story of this reputed "Trial of the Century" in his 1950 film, Madeleine.

Simply download it and watch. Great performances, nice dialogues, over all a great film.

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Reviewer: Travisab1 - - May 26, 2005
Subject: Dishonored Lady
Hedy as always was beautiful in this show and well acted by all actors, well written plot also keeping you in suspense right up to the very end. This movie will bring tears to the eyes of a lot of you folks and well worth the time to download it. Heck of a good show folks. Don't miss it.

Hedy finds it hard to break away from her past because a few nasty guys won't give her much of a chance. This was made during the times a girls reputation was easily tattered.

Travis

Reviewer: gentle ben - - February 18, 2005
Subject: A very beautiful woman
I agree with other reviewers of this film that Hedy Lamarr possessed a physical beauty with which few others could compete. I can't think of a single actress today that is her match in that regard. What some may not know is she was a very intelligent woman as well. In 1940 she and her Hollywood neighbor George Antheil patented the process of frequency hopping, one of the foundations of spread spectrum communications. From 1940 through the 1960s, spread spectrum was a classified technology used in defense applications. Today, it is found in a wide range of unclassified applications, including the one that allows you to connect your laptop computer to the internet at Starbucks.

The film itself is reasonably well written and acted. Unfortunately, most of the characters other than Hedy's, Madeline Damian, are made from cardboard and never really blossom with any complexity. Although never mentioned explicitly, a major topic of the film is nymphomania (note to those with purient interests - you will not find anything in this film to satisfy your tastes. The film is not sensational in this regard). Today the condition once known as nymphomania is dismisssed by many feminists as illusionary, being in their opinion a pejorative term describing a woman with a high sexual drive.

However, the film seems truer to life than this view admits. At the beginning of the film, Madeline attempts unsuccessfully to commit suicide. Through most of the first half, she inhabits a dark cave of guilt and regret. While the film's ending is a bit sappy (having the obligatory happy ending required for the period in which it was made), the story for the most part is reasonable and even thought provoking at times..

Reviewer: Scott Saunders - - December 13, 2004
Subject: I really liked this film
I thought this was a pretty good movie. Sure it was cheesy and predictable, but there were some surprises. I won't elaborate because I don't want to give anything away. It was paced well, the script was good, and there was some pretty good camera work. All in all it was a good, solid, film. It was interesting how they portrayed Heady Lamarr's character as a woman of questionable virtue and how they eluded to the things she had done in that capacity, of course it's all tame by today's standards but it makes for an interesting comparison. Did I mention that Hedy Lamarr was really, really, beautiful. Maybe my judegemnt is clouded as result, but I thought she did an excellent acting job. Her face seemed to convey all the right emotions and expressions more so than any spoken line. I actually found myself transfixed, just looking at her trying to read what her character might be feeling at a particular instance in time.
Just as an aside there were a couple of familiar faces and voices, the landlady played the wicked witch from the Wizard of Oz, Mrs. Howe from Gilligan's Island was in it, The District Attorney has been in a bunch of movies. He played Dan Healy in "It's a Joke Son" and I've seen him in a couple of Marx Brothers movies. He usually plays an upper crusty blue collar bad guy. And one of the bit players early on in the film did some character voice work for Fibber McGee and Molly.

Reviewer: Scott Saunders - - December 12, 2004
Subject: I really liked this film
I thought this was a pretty good movie. Sure it was cheesy and predictable, but there were some surprises. I won't elaborate because I don't want to give anything away. It was paced well, the script was good, and there was some pretty good camera work. All in all it was a good, solid, film. It was interesting how they portrayed Heady Lamarr's character as a woman of questionable virtue and how they eluded to the things she had done in that capacity, of course it's all tame by today's standards but it makes for an interesting comparison. Did I mention that Hedy Lamarr was really, really, beautiful. Maybe my judegemnt is clouded as result, but I thought she did an excellent acting job. Her face seemed to convey all the right emotions and expressions more so than any spoken line. I actually found myself transfixed, just looking at her trying to read what her character might be feeling at a particular instance in time.
Just as an aside there were a couple of familiar faces and voices, the landlady played the wicked witch from the Wizard of Oz, Mrs. Howe from Gilligan's Island was in it, The District Attorney has been in a bunch of movies. He played Dan Healy in "It's a Joke Son" and I've seen him in a couple of Marx Brothers movies. He usually plays an upper crusty blue collar bad guy. And one of the bit players early on in the film did some character voice work for Fibber McGee and Molly.