This Was a Woman (1948)

5.375

Crime Drama

102 min min

1948

Sonia Dresdel Walter Fitzgerald Emrys Jones Barbara White Scott Forbes

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...