Shadow of a Woman

Shadow of a Woman

Theatrical release poster
Directed by Joseph Santley
Produced by William Jacobs
Screenplay by Whitman Chambers
C. Graham Baker
Based on He Fell Down Dead
-Novel 
by Virginia Perdue
Starring Helmut Dantine
Andrea King
William Prince
Narrated by Andrea King
Music by Adolph Deutsch
Cinematography Bert Glennon
Edited by Christian Nyby
Distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures
Release dates
  • September 14, 1946 (United States)
Running time
78 minutes
Country United States
Language English

Shadow of a Woman is a 1946 American drama film noir directed by Joseph Santley. The drama features Helmut Dantine and Andrea King. The film is based on the novel He Fell Down Dead written by Virginia Perdue.[1]

Plot

Woman (Andrea King) on the verge of a breakdown marries a man (Helmut Dantine) she hardly knows, putting her in the path of fear and danger. She suspects her husband of plotting to kill his son from a previous marriage.

Cast

Reception

Recently, film critic Dennis Schwartz panned the film, writing, "A failure in every possible way. Joseph Santley flatly directs this film noir adapted from Virginia Perdue's novel He Fell Down Dead. The script by writers C. Graham Baker and Whitman Chambers was lacking credibility. The acting was hammy and unconvincing. The film offered hardly any entertainment value and the irrelevant story was more of a turn off than anything else. On top of all that, there were serious gaffes in the plotline that filled the story with holes the size of craters. This postwar B-film melodrama reunites Hotel Berlin co-stars Helmut Dantine and Andrea King. Shadow of a Woman might be remembered by film buffs only because it played in an early restaurant scene "How Little We Know", the Hoagy Carmichael song that Lauren Bacall sang in To Have and Have Not."[2]

TV Guide wrote about the screenplay, writing, "A slightly unrealistic story line hinders this drama that deals with a bride's terror."[3]

References

  1. Shadow of a Woman at the Internet Movie Database.
  2. Schwartz, Dennis. Ozus' World Movie Reviews, film review, August 25, 2002. Last accessed: February 21, 2011.
  3. TV Guide, film review. Last accessed: February 21, 2011.

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