Tuesday, February 5, 2013

The reckless moment (1949) - film noir directed by Max Ophüls starring Joan Bennett, James Mason and Geraldine Brooks

Rating 7.3/10
Runtime: 79 min
Language: English
Country: USA
Directed by: Max Ophüls
IMDb Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0041768/

Cast

James Mason ... Martin Donnelly
Joan Bennett ... Lucia Harper
Geraldine Brooks ... Bea Harper
Henry O'Neill ... Tom Harper
Shepperd Strudwick ... Ted Darby
David Bair ... David Harper
Roy Roberts ... Nagel

Description: In the charming community of Balboa 50 miles from Los Angeles, the middle-class housewife Lucia Harper travels to Los Angeles to meet the scoundrel Ted Darby. Her seventeen year-old daughter Beatrice is in love with Ted that is a worthless man. He asks for money to leave Bea, but Lucia refuses to give. Bea does not believe on her mother and during the night she sneaks out to the boat garage to meet Ted that admits that Lucia told the truth. Bea pushes him and Ted falls on an anchor immediately dying. On the next morning, Lucia finds the body and assumes that Bea has killed her lover. She decides to get rid of the corpse and puts it in her boat and dumps far from home. When the police find Ted, the stranger Martin Donnelly visits Lucia to blackmail her on behalf of his partner Nagel that has several letters that Bea had written to Ted, asking US$ 5,000 for the letters. The desperate Lucia tries to raise the amount since her husband is working in Berlin. However, Martin falls in love ...

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