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Bookmark this pageBlack Widow (1954)
Director: Nunnally Johnson
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From Time Out Film Guide
An adaptation of Patrick Quentin's fine thriller which starts promisingly with Heflin's distinguished Broadway producer, meeting a sweetly aspiring young playwright (Garner), helplessly bemused when (actually vampirically ambitious) she virtually takes over his apartment on the excuse that the surroundings are conducive to inspiration. When she is subsequently found murdered there and he becomes the prime suspect, the film degenerates into a routine whodunnit. Worth seeing for the fine cast, Raft (dreary as ever as the investigating cop) and Rogers (unexpectedly overdoing it as a bitchy actress) excepted.Author: TM
Cast & crew
Director: Nunnally Johnson
Producer: Nunnally Johnson
Cast: Van Heflin, George Raft, Gene Tierney, Ginger Rogers, Reginald Gardiner, Peggy Ann Garner, Otto Kruger full cast
Genre(s): Thrillers
Duration: 95 mins
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