Fortune Is a Woman

Mar 13, 1957

1h 35m

★ 6.8

They Can't Kiss Away Their Conscience

Overview

An insurance man discovers his ex-girlfriend and her husband's art-forgery/arson scam.

Genres

Thriller

Crime

Production Companies

John Harvel Productions

Individual Pictures

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Cast

Oliver Branwell

Jack Hawkins

Sarah Moreton Branwell

Arlene Dahl

Tracey Moreton

Dennis Price

Mrs. Moreton

Violet Farebrother

Clive Fisher

Ian Hunter

Old Abercrombie

Malcolm Keen

Michael Abercrombie aka Young Abercrombie

Geoffrey Keen

Fred Connor

Patrick Holt

Berkeley Reckitt

John Robinson

Detective Insp. Barnes

Michael Goodliffe

Det. Constable Watson

Martin Lane

Mr. Jerome

Bernard Miles

After a whirlwind romance in Mexico, a beautiful heiress marries a man she barely knows with hardly a second thought. She finds his New York home full of his strange relations, and macabre rooms that are replicas of famous murder sites. One locked room contains the secret to her husband's obsession, and the truth about what happened to his first wife.

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