A Woman's Face (1941)

Calificación de los usuarios:

7.0/10   

Director:

George Cukor

Escritores:

Francis de Croisset (play)
Donald Ogden Stewart (writer) ...

Fecha de Lanzamiento:

23 mayo 1941 (USA)

Género:

Suspenso | Drama

Frase comercial:

They called her a scar-faced she-devil.

Plot:

A female blackmailer with a disfiguring facial scar meets a plastic surgeon who offers her the possibility of looking like a normal woman.

Plot Keywords:

Blackmailer | Facial Scar | Scar | Blackmail | Disfigurement

Comentarios de los usuarios:

Superb Joan Crawford

US TV Schedule:

Thur. July 16

4:00 PM

TCM

Reparto

Joan Crawford	...	Anna Holm
Melvyn Douglas	...	Dr. Gustaf Segert
Conrad Veidt	...	Torsten Barring
Osa Massen	...	Vera Segert
Reginald Owen	...	Bernard Dalvik
Albert Bassermann	...	Consul Magnus Barring
Marjorie Main	...	Emma Kristiansdotter
Donald Meek	...	Herman Rundvik
Connie Gilchrist	...	Christina Dalvik
Richard Nichols	...	Lars-Erik Barring
Charles Quigley	...	Eric
Gwili Andre	...	Gusta
Clifford Brooke	...	Wickman
George Zucco	...	Defense Attorney
Henry Kolker	...	Judge

También conocida como:

Un rostro de mujer (Spain) [es]

Duración:

106 min

País:

USA

Idioma:

Inglés

Color:

Negro y Blanco

Relación de Aspecto:

1.37 : 1

Sonido:

Mono (Western Electric Sound System)

Clasificación:

Finland:K-16 | Sweden:15 | USA:Approved (PCA #7126)

Locaciones de Filmación:

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios - 10202 W. Washington Blvd., Culver City, California, USA

Compañía:

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)

Citas:

[first lines]
Police Matron: That's a fine trick. You know the prisoner's afraid of fire.

Conexiones de Película:

Referenced in The Goddess (1958)

Superb Joan Crawford

Joan Crawford has one of her first great roles in this 1941 remake of a Swedish film that starred Ingrid Bergman. And she is superb. She plays a complex woman scarred in a fire caused by her drunken father. She has grown up as an outcast of society and turns to blackmailing as a way to make a living. Through a series of events she meets a plastic surgeon (Melvyn Douglas) who operates and transforms her life. But she is ensnared with villainous Conrad Veidt who wants to kill his nephew so he can inherit the family fortune.

Part thriller part courtroom drama, A Woman's Face gives Crawford the kind of role that showed off all her talents as an actress. This film, along with Mildred Pierce, Possessed, and Humoresque, ranks as one of her best. The entire cast is top notch.

Douglas is fine as the compassionate surgeon and Veidt is terrific as the murderous uncle. Marjorie Main has one of her best roles as the jealous housekeeper. Reginald Owen, Connie Gilchrist, and Donald Meek are Crawford's band of thieves. Albert Basserman is the old counsel. Richard Nichols is the cute kid. Osa Massen is Douglas' pig of a wife. Henry Kolker is the judge and Henry Daniell a lawyer.

Great direction (George Cukor) and cinematography. Exciting sleigh race at the finale. But first and foremost this is a Joan Crawford picture. Why didn't she get Oscar nominated for this gem?