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Wednesday, Jun 22, 2016
7 PM (86 mins)
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Her Sister's Secret
Nancy Coleman, Margaret Lindsay, Phillip Reed, Felix Bressart,
When New Orleans belle Toni finds herself pregnant after a Mardi Gras tryst with a soldier on leave, her sister offers to take the baby and raise it as her own. Thus begins a series of well-intended lies that become a tender torture for the bereft Toni. This melodrama is an unusually well-appointed outing for B-movie king Edgar Ulmer, polished to a satiny sheen by cinematographer Franz Planer, but the emotions it contains are far from genteel. As Toni becomes her son’s stalker, Ulmer and star Nancy Coleman create a disturbing portrait of maternal love driven to the brink of madness.
FILM DETAILS
Screenwriter
- Anne Greene
Based On
The novel Dark Angel by Gina Kaus
Cinematographer
- Franz Planer
Print Info
- B&W
- 35mm
- 86 mins
Source
- UCLA Film & Television Archive
Permission
- Films Around the World
Additional Info
- Preservation funded by the Film Foundation and the Franco-American Cultural Fund, a unique partnership between the Directors Guild of America [DGA], the Motion Picture Association of America [MPAA], Société des Auteurs, Compositeurs et Editeurs de Musique [SACEM], and the Writers Guild of America, West [WGAW]