Black Widow (1954)
Country: US
Technical: col/scope 95m
Director: Nunnally Johnson
Cast: Ginger Rogers, Van Heflin, George Raft, Gene Tierney
Synopsis:
An ambitious young writer turns up dead in the apartment of a Broadway producer, and it turns out she was not the ingénue he thought she was.
Review:
A very silly title, not least for giving away the identity of the murderer, is made even sillier by a lurid pre-credit which is at odds with the would-be classy tone of the rest of the film. Anyway Ginger outclasses them all in this tiresome and implausible whodunnit (the intrigue is premised upon a hard to credit character shift and resolves itself with the unlikely proposition of Rogers stringing the corpse up from the chandelier).
Country: US
Technical: col/scope 95m
Director: Nunnally Johnson
Cast: Ginger Rogers, Van Heflin, George Raft, Gene Tierney
Synopsis:
An ambitious young writer turns up dead in the apartment of a Broadway producer, and it turns out she was not the ingénue he thought she was.
Review:
A very silly title, not least for giving away the identity of the murderer, is made even sillier by a lurid pre-credit which is at odds with the would-be classy tone of the rest of the film. Anyway Ginger outclasses them all in this tiresome and implausible whodunnit (the intrigue is premised upon a hard to credit character shift and resolves itself with the unlikely proposition of Rogers stringing the corpse up from the chandelier).
Country: US
Technical: col/scope 95m
Director: Nunnally Johnson
Cast: Ginger Rogers, Van Heflin, George Raft, Gene Tierney
Synopsis:
An ambitious young writer turns up dead in the apartment of a Broadway producer, and it turns out she was not the ingénue he thought she was.
Review:
A very silly title, not least for giving away the identity of the murderer, is made even sillier by a lurid pre-credit which is at odds with the would-be classy tone of the rest of the film. Anyway Ginger outclasses them all in this tiresome and implausible whodunnit (the intrigue is premised upon a hard to credit character shift and resolves itself with the unlikely proposition of Rogers stringing the corpse up from the chandelier).