She Had Everything You Could Give A Woman To Torment A Man!
Mystery novelist Janet Frobisher, lives in an isolated house, having been separated for years from her criminal husband. She has fallen in love with her secretary's fiancé and when her estranged husband unexpectedly returns, Janet poisons him, but just as she's about to dispose of the body, one of her husband's criminal cohorts also shows up.
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Intimate, spare, classical in form and unpretentious.
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- John Chardon TMDB · May 20146.5/10
The Dark Recesses of the Female Mind. Another Man's Poison is directed by Irving Rapper and adapted to screenplay by Val Guest from the play "Deadlock" written by Leslie Sands. It stars Bette Davis, Gary Merrill, Emlyn Williams, Anthony Steel and Barbara Murray. Music is by John Greenwood and Paul Sawtell and cinematography by Robert Krasker. A whole bunch of fun if expectation levels are correctly set. Another Man's Poison is essentially a one set piece (confirming its stage origins), with primary focus on just five people and a horse. It's a tale of murder, deception and carnal desires, the latter of which is wrung out via Janet Frobisher's (Davis) affair with a much younger man who happens to be the intended of her secretary. Frobisher is quite frankly a bitch, something which Davis attacks with relish and no little amount of histrionic camp. She's the fulcrum of the story, but all the other key characters here are either stupid, ignorant, devious or all three in one go! Oh yes, this is a regular hot-bed of people you really wouldn't want to be hanging around with for too long. It's these characterisations that along with Krasker's photography just about earns the pic its film n
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Cast
- Bette DavisJanet Frobisher
- Gary MerrillGeorge Bates
- Emlyn WilliamsDr. Henderson
- Anthony SteelLarry Stevens
- Barbara MurrayChris Dale
- Reginald BeckwithMr. Bigley
- Edna MorrisMrs. Bunting
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- Irving RapperDirector
- Val GuestWriter
- Robert KraskerDirector of Photography
- Paul SawtellOriginal Music Composer
- Daniel M. AngelOriginal Music Composer
- Gordon HalesEditor
- Daniel M. AngelProducer
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