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Bookmark this pageThe Wicked Lady (1945)
Director: Leslie Arliss
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From Time Out Film Guide
Post-war uplift becomes almost exclusively a matter of Ms Lockwood's cleavage in this period melodrama from Gainsborough that caused a censorious and highly profitable controversy in a teacup for its quaint bawdiness. Lockwood is the amoral aristo thrill-seeker who takes to highway robbery alongside Mason; former critic and screenwriter Arliss the unfortunate director having to contend with the recalcitrant mechanics of Lime Grove studio ruralism.Author: PT
Cast & crew
Director: Leslie Arliss
Producer: RJ Minney
Cast: Margaret Lockwood, James Mason, Patricia Roc, Griffith Jones, Michael Rennie, Enid Stamp-Taylor, Felix Aylmer, Martita Hunt, Jean Kent full cast
Genre(s): Period/Swashbucklers
Duration: 104 mins
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