A Woman's Vengeance

A Woman's Vengeance
Charles Boyer and Ann Blyth
Directed by	Zoltan Korda
Produced by	Zoltan Korda
Written by	Aldous Huxley (based on his short story "The Gioconda Smile")
Starring	Charles Boyer
Music by	Miklós Rózsa
Cinematography	Russell Metty
Edited by	Jack Wheeler
Production company	Universal Pictures
Distributed by	Universal Pictures
Release date	January 29, 1948 (1948-01-29) (United States)
Running time	96 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English

A Woman's Vengeance is a 1948 American film noir drama mystery film directed by Zoltán Korda, with a screenplay by Aldous Huxley based on his short story "The Gioconda Smile", and starring Charles Boyer, Ann Blyth, Jessica Tandy, Cedric Hardwicke, Rachel Kempson, and Mildred Natwick. The film was released by Universal Pictures.

Plot

Henry Maurier rebounds from the death of wife Emily by marrying his brother-in-law's mistress, upsetting another woman who is in love with him. Suspicions grow that Henry might have hurried along his wife's death with poison.

Cast

Charles Boyer as Henry Maurier
Ann Blyth as Doris Mead
Jessica Tandy as Janet Spence
Cedric Hardwicke as Dr. James Libbard
Mildred Natwick as Nurse Caroline Braddock
Cecil Humphreys as General Spence
Hugh French as Robert Lester
Rachel Kempson as Emily Maurier
Valerie Cardew as Clara
Carl Harbord as Leslie Blake
John Williams as Prosecuting Counsel
Leyland Hodgson as First Warder
Ola Lorraine as Malsey
Harry Cording as Chauffeur McNabb

Radio adaptation

A Woman's Vengeance was presented on Lux Radio Theatre March 22, 1948. Boyer and Blyth reprised their original roles in the adaptation.^[1]

References

↑ "Boyer, Blyth Play Original Roles on 'Lux'". Harrisburg Telegraph. March 20, 1948. p. 22. Retrieved August 8, 2015 – via Newspapers.com.

External links

A Woman's Vengeance on IMDb
A Woman's Vengeance at AllMovie
A Woman's Vengeance at the British Film Institute's Film and TV Database

Films directed by Zoltan Korda

The Eleven Devils (1927)
Men of Tomorrow (1932)
Cash (1933)
Sanders of the River (1935)
Conquest of the Air (1936)
Forget Me Not (1936)
Elephant Boy (1937)
The Drum (1938)
The Four Feathers (1939)
Jungle Book (1942)
Sahara (1943)
Counter-Attack (1945)
The Macomber Affair (1947)
A Woman's Vengeance (1948)
Cry, the Beloved Country (1952)
Storm Over the Nile (1955)

Aldous Huxley
Novels	Crome Yellow (1921) Antic Hay (1923) Those Barren Leaves (1925) Point Counter Point (1928) Brave New World (1932) Eyeless in Gaza (1936) After Many a Summer (1939) Time Must Have a Stop (1944) Ape and Essence (1948) The Genius and the Goddess (1955) Island (1962)
Short story collections	Limbo (1920) Mortal Coils (1922) Little Mexican (1924) Two or Three Graces (1926) Brief Candles (1930) Collected Short Stories (1957)
Non-fiction	The Perennial Philosophy (1945) Grey Eminence (1941) The Devils of Loudun (1952) The Doors of Perception (1954)
Poetry	The Burning Wheel (1916) Jonah (1917) The Defeat of Youth (1918) Leda (1920) Arabia Infelix (1929) The Cicadias and Other Poems (1931) Collected Poetry (1971)
Travel writing	Along the Road (1925) Jesting Pilate (1926) Beyond the Mexique Bay (1934)
Essay collections	On the Margin (1923) Essays New and Old (1926) Proper Studies (1927) Do What You Will (1929) Vulgarity in Literature (1930) Music at Night (1931) Texts and Pretexts (1932) The Olive Tree (1936) Ends and Means (1937) Words and their Meanings (1940) Science, Liberty and Peace (1946) Themes and Variations (1950) Adonis and the Alphabet (1956) Heaven and Hell (1956) Collected Essays (1958) Brave New World Revisited (1958) Literature and Science (1963) The Human Situation: 1959 Lectures at Santa Barbara (1977) Moksha: Writings on Psychedelics and the Visionary Experience (1999)
Screenplays	Pride and Prejudice (1940) Madame Curie (uncredited, 1943) Jane Eyre (1943) A Woman's Vengeance (1947) Prelude to Fame (1950) Alice in Wonderland (uncredited, 1951)
Radio script	"Jacob's Hands: A Fable" (1956, published 1997)
Plays	The Discovery (1924) The World of Light (1931) The Gioconda Smile (1948) The Genius and the Goddess (1957) The Ambassador of Captripedia (1965) Now More Than Ever (1997)
Other books	The Art of Seeing (1942) The Crows of Pearblossom (1944 children's book, published 1967) Selected Letters (2007)

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