The Two Mrs. Carrolls

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The Two Mrs. Carrolls

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Directed by Peter Godfrey
Produced by Excecutive producer:
Jack L. Warner
Producer:
Mark Hellinger
Written by Screenplay:
Thomas Job
Story:
Martin Vale
Starring Humphrey Bogart
Barbara Stanwyck
Alexis Smith
Nigel Bruce
Music by Franz Waxman
Cinematography J. Peverell Marley
Editing by Frederick Richards
Distributed by Warner Bros.
Release date(s) March 4, 1947
Running time 99 minutes
Country United states
Language English
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The Two Mrs. Carrolls is a 1947 film noir made by Warner Brothers. It was directed by Peter Godfrey and produced by Mark Hellinger, with Jack L. Warner as executive producer, from a screenplay by Thomas Job based on the play by Martin Vale. It starred Humphrey Bogart, Barbara Stanwyck and Alexis Smith with Nigel Bruce.[1]

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An artist Gerry Carroll (Bogart) meets Sally (Stanwyck) while on a vacation in the country. They develop a romance but Carroll doesn't tell her he's already married.

Suffering from mental illness, Gerry returns home where he paints an impression of his wife as the angel of death and then promptly poisons her. He then marries Sally but after a while he paints sally as the angel of death.

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[edit] Critical reception

Film critic Dennis Schwartz wrote, "Britisher Peter Godfrey...directs this inert and overwrought crime/melodrama that never gets over being stagy despite the teaming of Humphrey Bogart and Barbara Stanwyck. There's almost no action, the dialogue is from hunger, and the familiar plot has been better done in many other films...This film never had much of a chance from the beginning. Only Alexis Smith's performance as the scheming other woman was pleasing."[2]

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[edit] Notes

  1. ^ The Two Mrs. Carrolls at the Internet Movie Database.
  2. ^ Schwartz, dennis. Ozus' World Movie Reviews, film review, October 20, 2006. Last accessed: June 9, 2008.

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