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The Woman in the Hall

The Woman in the Hall

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Status

Released

Release Date

Oct 27, 1947

Runtime

1h 33m

Genres

Drama

User Score

58%

Original Title

The Woman in the Hall

Production Companies

Wessex Film Productions, J. Arthur Rank Organisation

Director

Jack Lee

Description

Lorna Blake, (Ursula Jeans) is a widow with two daughters. She augments her slender income by using her children to extort money - visiting the houses of the rich to tell a pathetic story and beg for help. And Lorna makes a rich capture when Sir Halmar Bernard, (Cecil Parker), proposes to her. She tells him that she has only one daughter, Molly (Jill Freud, credited as Jill Raymond). When her other daughter, Jay (Jean Simmons), is arrested for forging a cheque, she refuses to help her.