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After a married woman and her lover murder her cruel husband, they find themselves targeted by someone who is aware of their crime.After a married woman and her lover murder her cruel husband, they find themselves targeted by someone who is aware of their crime.After a married woman and her lover murder her cruel husband, they find themselves targeted by someone who is aware of their crime.
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- TriviaLana Turner wears jewelry in this film reportedly worth over $1.1M at the time (nearly $11M in 2022).
- GoofsWhen Miss Lee approaches Cathy and Blake in the restaurant, Blake is holding a cup in his right hand and places it down. In the next shot, he's holding the cup in his left hand and puts it down again.
- Quotes
Sheila Cabot: Oh don't leave me David, please don't go away!
Dr. David Rivera: I've got to go!
Sheila Cabot: But why Darling, why? I don't know what I'll do if you go!
Dr. David Rivera: I'm - I'm afraid of what I'll do if I stay!
- ConnectionsEdited into The Green Fog (2017)
Featured review
Classic Melodrama
Lana Turner, who's married to invalid Lloyd Nolan, has fallen for his doctor Anthony Quinn in one of Lana's most underrated films. This has to be one of the best examples of the melodrama genre, with Lana looking great as usual. I love it when movies know how to fill the cast with recognizable names, giving each role a chance to stand out: Anthony Quinn, Richard Basehart, Lloyd Nolan, Sandra Dee, John Saxon, Ray Walston, silent-screen star Anna May Wong, and Virginia Grey, who was an almost constant presence in Lana's later films. How you can go wrong? Granted, it may be campy or cheesy in some places, with loopholes to boot. But it wouldn't be melodrama without them. And, watching Anthony be driven out of his mind, is priceless. Only a great actor as him could overact so well. And, Sandra Dee comes off surprisingly well in her role, as the stepdaughter skeptic of her stepmother, who goes shopping, but comes back with no packages. If you're yearning for a good old-fashioned movie, the kind they just don't make anymore, this is for you. It's out on DVD, with Madame X. (That's another review.) Knock yourself out! Also, with Lana and John Saxon together in San Francisco, it feels like early Falcon Crest all over again. You gotta love it.
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- Mar 26, 2009
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- Also known as
- Das Geheimnis der Dame in Schwarz
- Filming locations
- San Francisco, California, USA(sequence at Devil's Slide on the Pacific Coast Highway - State Route 1)
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- Budget
- $1,400,000 (estimated)
- Runtime1 hour 52 minutes
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