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This Was a Woman is a 1948 British crime film directed by Tim Whelan and starring Sonia Dresdel, Walter Fitzgerald and Emrys Jones. It was made at the Riverside Studios with sets designed by the art directors Ivan King and Andrew Mazzei.
This Was a Woman: Directed by Tim Whelan. With Sonia Dresdel, Barbara White, Walter Fitzgerald, Cyril Raymond. A wife whose goal is power begins a game of manipulation that insidiously destroys her family.
Sylvia Russell (Sonia Dresdel) uses psychology to rule with an iron fist. Terry Russell (Emrys Jones) finally confronts his mother about her crimes.
A wife whose goal is power begins a game of manipulation that insidiously destroys her family. Sylvia Russell is power-mad and has some set goals.
This Was A Woman is a British Film Noir form 1948. The title meekly implies that the main character might once have been a woman, a human being, but soon transformed into an evil hateful conniving witch.
In order to accomplish her individual ambitious targets, a woman damages her family by destroying her daughter's marriage and murdering her husband, in this adaptation of the play of the same name by Joan Morgan.
This Was a Woman. To achieve her own ambitious goals, a woman destroys her family by ruining her daughter's marriage and poisoning her husband.
- Crime, Drama
