BEDELIA
(Rank-Eagle-Lion)
TOP me if you've heard this one (you don’t need to hurry much because this is a very slow-moving story), It’s all about a Wicked Lady (Margaret Lockwood, of
course), who seems such a sweet, innocent thing at first, second, and even third glance, but who is really "like a poisonous flower" and has an irritating habit of killing her husbands in order’ to collect their insurance money. She’s up to her fourth when the story opens, but because he’s such a devoted, harmless fellow (Ian Hunter) she keeps on postponing his murder, But by this time the insurance companies have begun to feel suspicious and have sent Barry K. Barnes to investigate the situation in the disguise of a portrait painter. So Bedelia, all mixed up and frustrated, swallows her own poison and _ then, thank heaven, it’s time to go home. The story itself has long since curled up and died of sheer inanition. I am sorry to notice that this film is proving so popular. We seem to be reaching the dangerous stage where any | British production is likely to do good business just because it is British,
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 16, Issue 416, 13 June 1947, Page 12
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192BEDELIA New Zealand Listener, Volume 16, Issue 416, 13 June 1947, Page 12
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