HOW COULD THIS WOMAN WIN A MAN'S LOVE...HIS KISSES...HIS EMBRACES...?
A female blackmailer with a disfiguring facial scar meets a plastic surgeon who offers her the possibility of looking like a normal woman.
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- CinemaSerfon TMDB · Jun 20227/10
Joan Crawford ("Anna") is on top form in this adept Cukorian adaptation of Francis de Croisset's play. Set in Sweden, she is a young girl scarred after an accident in her home many years earlier. Feeling herself rejected by society, she turns to petty blackmail with "Barring" (Conrad Veidt) and alights on the cheating wife "Vera" (Isa Massen) of plastic surgeon "Gustaf" (Melvyn Douglas). Whilst amidst her extortion attempts, she is apprehended by the doctor who mistakes her for a burglar. Persuaded not to call the police by his wife, "Gustaf" turns his attention to her disfigurement, and offers to help... Meantime, "Barring" is starting to run out of credit, so tells her of his wealthy uncle who has only a young grandson to inherit his fortune. Should anything happen to the young boy, then it would all be his - or, theirs! She pretends to be a governess and heads to look after the young lad. Will she carry out their dastardly plan and dispose of their obstacle to wealth and happiness? It's told by way of a trial at which "Anna" is the accused, so for most of the film we are not entirely sure who has been killed - or, indeed, who did any killing. The method by which each "witness" g
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Cast
- Joan CrawfordAnna Holm
- Melvyn DouglasDr. Gustaf Segert
- Conrad VeidtTorsten Barring
- Osa MassenVera Segert
- Reginald OwenBernard Dalvik
- Albert BassermannConsul Magnus Barring
- Marjorie MainEmma Kristiansdotter
- Donald MeekHerman Rundvik
- Connie GilchristChristina Dalvik
- Richard NicholsLars-Erik Barring
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- George CukorDirector
- Donald Ogden StewartScreenplay
- Elliot PaulScreenplay
- Robert H. PlanckDirector of Photography
- Bronislau KaperOriginal Music Composer
- Frank SullivanEditor
- Victor SavilleProducer
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