痴心女子负心郎?
1948

剧情简介

　　[ Novelist=: .Jos\ep^h_ Shearing s$peciali#-zed in #us.#.ing ,real +c].ase\s wh,%$(ich t =ook place in Victo:=rian England, alterin
g t%h $em for ficti;_=o%_$(nal purp[oses. MOSS ROSE _in 1947 was the fir/=s
t film to!/[( b\ e% made[# fr!
`\om \=his `novel+_s, ]then in 1,^*948 two of .hi+s ^
!(works w);$ere!? ada@(!/pted for the screen,%,\ . this film and TH.E MARK OF CAIN. The movie stars=^, Todd as a recently wid`)owed missionary r^et.@%urning(= t -@o he+,r home[ in Engla ^nd from! J.ama
,ica. Durin:%g the v_)o%/yage, she m]/ee]ts ^Milland, a charmin`g thoug]$h-* dangerous r,ascal
 who is]*  wa%nted by -police!%#) in  %connection w@+ith som)$e unsavory@?
]de^#al)*in*gs(=[ . Milland contra =c
ts m:al#%aria w.+hile ] o nboard t`/h.e shi-*,p and,^= Todd nurses him $b/ack

:_ to heal th. In*]$= London, Todd sett? les into +her+` home, !
;tak@?ing i =n, boarders to make ends meet. Milland arrives, mo @ves= in, * and proc@-l_@aim s  his +-\lov
e ` for her][. Todd ,??is thril) led, b$;#$ut it seems rather]* obviou%(s that Millan\.d is on,.^ l:y toying /+ with her. Mi@l!(land finds some letters. wr++itten to her by her] f # riend, Fitzgera?ld, in which Fitzger#\al_ d reveals )som.e` of her sexual !=indis ,*
cretio;]=ns. Since Fitzger ald is now marr(ied:_? to t[!he wealt*!h!$y Hunt#[[ ley, Mil %land believe!s,* he ##can use the letter_s to b la$ckmail Fitzgerald. T? odd's love for()` Mi[lland is so great=##$ that s)_he go#e_s alo.n=g with the $p_) lan. H(untley, however,!%$ l__earns of the [ sche]me and als o u;n?!(,covers detai ls @of Mill_/and':,s s h;ady past. Fear^in@$g for her_  lover/$'s saf+` ety, 
Todd poisons Huntley,@ th]-:*en ![re:ma[ins silent when Fitzg +e*
rald i)s ar;[%rest)]?ed for the mur%=der. Milland has b)\.y n; o\w genuinely fa:llen $ in lov?`e with Todd an=)+d the t_wo m)@*a#ke plans to lea %+-ve E:_nglan/d. Before the:`y [can depart, one o%f Milland&# 39s f%;:ormer lovers shows u #p and T?od%(d, i*n a jealous rage, kills\(: Milland,\+ t],/hen t $urn])s herself-* i*
nto(-+ the p
-/olice.;#　　T^hi%;s is an) intri*guing;@ f) *ilm, although?  a little on the tal?ky s* =ide. Th!e? _ p*:erformanc=$es are= excellent th%roug /ho^=ut _, with Mil, [l and shining as the cad, =th+?[e type of role in which he e  x celled. Th @=,ough he spen#t most of his ti_ **_me @)making ,fi%lms i**n the U@S, he occa$si_ona!
lly returned to his n]])ativ%;e E=_%nglan-d.\$
fo+r/ a pro-duction 
@an.%d
`t;hi$/%s w@ as h@is ;]`first B/ritish fil[/-m since FRENC\`H WITHOUT TEAR %
*S`##- in 1(; +93.9 %_. Director Al? len was als./]o an Englishman #wh:(o chose to w=]o[rk in the US, this bei:ng his #:first directorial effort in his h:ome^_l;.and.=^; This+ was ?the fo!#!urth and last ti,+me Millan;_d and Allen would?`]% w,%o`]rk togethe[r, th# #eir p[ =air)ing havin%g begun in 1944 with the wonder$:fully eerie TH
?E UNINVITED.