A superior remake of the 1937 Ingrid Bergman Swedish film EN KVINNAS ANSIKTE, which was based on the French drama "Il Etait Une Fois" by Francis de Croisset. Crawford is terrific in this atypical story and should have been nominated for an Oscar but this was the year of Joan Fontaine in
SUSPICION plus some excellent films by Greer Garson, Olivia de Havilland, Bette Davis, and Barbara Stanwyck. They kept the Swedish background to the story although it could work just as well with a US setting. Crawford lives in Stockholm. Her face was disfigured as a child and she is now a lonely,
bitter woman. She becomes a part of a blackmail ring, meeting Veidt, a mean scion of s...
Released:
1941
Rated:
NR
Length:
105 mins