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Fortune Is a Woman

Fortune Is a Woman

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Summary

Mystery starring Jack Hawkins and Arlene Dahl. An insurance investigator begins to suspect that his ex-lover's husband might be involved in a serious art fraud.

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Review

A star rating of 2 out of 5.

David Parkinson

Adapted from a novel by Winston Graham (of Poldark fame), this fair-to-middling thriller by the inseparable duo of Frank Launder and Sidney Gilliat is all plot and no point. Borrowing from a thousand and one films noirs, it follows the misfortunes of Jack Hawkins, an insurance assessor whose investigation of a series of fires draws him into murder, marriage and blackmail with a fatalistic inevitability. Hawkins lacks the vulnerability that Edward G Robinson brought to similar films like The Woman in the Window, while Arlene Dahl's femme fatale has too little of the allure that would make such a dangerous liaison worth the risk.

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6.8/10

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Cast

rolenameOliver BranwellJack HawkinsSarah MoretonArlene DahlTracey MoretonDennis PriceMrs MoretonViolet FarebrotherClive FisherIan Hunter (1)Old AbercrombieMalcolm KeenMichael AbercrombieGeoffrey KeenFred ConnorPatrick HoltBerkeley ReckittJohn Robinson (1)Vere LitchenGreat GyntSergeant BarnesMichael GoodliffeWatsonMartin LaneMr JeromeBernard MilesCharles HighburyChristopher Lee

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Crew

rolenameDirectorSidney Gilliat

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Theatrical distributor

Launder Prods Ltd

Languages

English

Formats

Black and white

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