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Monday, Aug 1, 1983
9:50PM
Such Women Are Dangerous
“Such Women Are Dangerous is a wild melodrama from a (presumably more sober) Vera Caspary novel that offers, among other delights, several very lovely ladies. These ladies--mesdames Hudson, Ames and Barrie, and some hilariously unrestrained courtroom hamming from Irving Pichel and Frank Conroy--rate far more attention than the assembly-line script, which would have us believe that Warner Baxter is a great writer, even though he disproves it all too often by dictating some of his writing to his secretary. It's one of those films that was clearly just program fodder, considered of no major commercial or artistic importance, and yet for some unfathomable reason seems to work and be thoroughly entertaining. Perhaps it's because all the players go at it as though they really believe in it, and the cameraman (O'Connell) and art director (Gordon Wiles, later to become an interesting director himself) give it all the pictorial style that they'd lavish on a film of much greater prestige. And one of its major surprises is Rochelle Hudson, both attractive and dramatically effective in an unaccustomed role that she can really sink her teeth into.... Possibly, in fact probably, tonight's print is the only one extant, so enjoy it while you can.” W.K.E.
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