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Title:The Woman In The Hall


Date: 1947
Type: Drama
Rating: 4 Stars 4/5
Colour: Black and White
Director: Jack Lee
Producer: Ian Dalrymple

Comment
A widow (Ursula Jeans) with two children (Jean Simmons and Jill Freud) gets money from wealthy people by running a hard luck scam with her children. After the oldest child leaves home and gets a job, she meets up with a rich man who takes a fancy to her and her daughters complicate the situation. The film examines relationships, families, child development and manipulative personalities. Ursula Jeans is good as the cold, hard hearted, manipulative mother and is well supported by Jean Simmons as the naive and innocent younger daughter who was not taught morality and Jill Freud as the sweet and innocent younger daughter. This is a good post-war British melodrama.

Actors

Ursula JeansUrsula Jeans
Jean SimmonsJean Simmons
Cecil ParkerCecil Parker
Joan Miller
Jill Freud
Susan HampshireSusan Hampshire

Oscars

None

Woman In The Hall