THIS WOMAN IS DANGEROUS
(Warner Bros.)
HIS WOMAN IS DANGEROUS is part thriller, part hospital romance. "This woman" is Joan Crawford as Beth Austin, a woman with a past who, with two gun-toting brothers (David Brian and Philip Carey), is operating as a bigtime crook. seems to be getting on her nerves a bit as the first reel gets under way, and when she lets Dr. Hallek (Denis Morgan) perform a very dicey operation in an effort to save her failing sight she begins to see the light. But she still feels she owes a lot to Mr. Brian for his help in the past. and he’s
as possessive and jealous and triggerhappv as they come. This film has a few exciting moments, some sirens, and a gun-fight in a hospital, but better than any of these is a tense little scene in which Beth sits smoking ‘in the doctor’s car in the yard of a women’s prison while a prison officer tries to discover which one of a group of prisoners has been smoking when she shouldn’t. This is well done. Otherwise as thri'lers go this is a pretty, slow film. Miss Crawford gives an adequate performance, with support of a sort from’ Messrs. Brian and Carey, wt.o seem to express their brotherly «ve in endless near-fatal brawls; but ra aot satisfied that Mr. Morgan wou!d know the difference between a scaipel and a stethoscope-and I’m certain he would never capture the heart of a woman who'd been about as long as Beth Austin.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 30, Issue 770, 23 April 1954, Page 20
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255THIS WOMAN IS DANGEROUS New Zealand Listener, Volume 30, Issue 770, 23 April 1954, Page 20
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