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As painter Walter Hartright (Gig Young) walks through the wooded dark night to Limmeridge House, she arrives like a heavenly apparition: The Woman in White, the title character of Wilkie Collins' pioneering 1859 mystery novel, well-embodied in this eerily effective, lushly atmospheric screen adaptation by lovely Eleanor Parker.
She is the key figure (actually figures, playing dual roles) in a tale of murder, insanity, switched identities and dastardly plots encircling an inheritance, while Hartright and family cousin Marian (Alexis Smith) sleuth out the motivations of the estate's odd, sinister characters.
Director Peter Godfrey (Christmas in Connecticut, The Two Mrs. Carrolls) marshals studio forces of top-tier production and costume design, a lyrical Max Steiner score and a rogues' gallery of juicy turns by John Abbott as the hypochondriac family scion, John Emery as a scheming nobleman, Agnes Moorehead as a long-suffering wife and, supremely, Sydney Greenstreet as evil bon vivant Count Fosco, to craft a silkily stylish and hugely gripping thriller.
Original Release
05/07/1948
US Release
05/07/1948
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Cast
Name | Character |
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Alexis Smith | Marian Halcombe |
Eleanor Parker | Ann Catherick / Laura Fairlie |
Sydney Greenstreet | Count Alessandro Fosco / Count Fosco |
Gig Young | Walter Hartright |
Agnes Moorehead | Countess Fosco |
John Abbott | Frederick Fairlie |
John Emery | Sir Percival Glyde |
Curt Bois | Louis |
Emma Dunn | Mrs. Vesey |
Matthew Boulton | Dr. Nevin |
Directors
Writers
Stephen Morehouse Avery, Wilkie Collins
Cast
Name | Character |
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Alexis Smith | Marian Halcombe |
Eleanor Parker | Ann Catherick / Laura Fairlie |
Sydney Greenstreet | Count Alessandro Fosco / Count Fosco |
Gig Young | Walter Hartright |
Agnes Moorehead | Countess Fosco |
John Abbott | Frederick Fairlie |
John Emery | Sir Percival Glyde |
Curt Bois | Louis |
Emma Dunn | Mrs. Vesey |
Matthew Boulton | Dr. Nevin |
Anita Sharp-Bolster | Mrs. Todd |
Clifford Brooke | Jepson |
Barry Bernard | Dimmock |
Harold De Becker | Attendant |
John Goldsworthy | Station Agent |
Randy Hairston | Young Boy |
Creighton Hale | Underservant |
Fred Kelsey | Mourner |
Crauford Kent | Rector |
Anne Kunde | Kate |
Producers
Name | Role |
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Jack L. Warner | Executive Producer |
Henry Blanke | Producer |