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This Was a Woman

This Was a Woman

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Status

Released

Release Date

Jan 27, 1948

Runtime

1h 42m

Genres

Crime, Drama

User Score

62%

Original Title

This Was a Woman

Production Companies

Excelsior Film Productions

Director

Tim Whelan

Description

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...