The Woman In White (1948) (MOD)

The Woman In White (1948) (MOD)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

one part criminal kingpin

gets to California in ten days with a suit

confident lead

A Kansas City singer and his jazz band bow down to pressure from a local gangster and take on the thug's alcoholic girlfriend as a singer

this is a fascinating curio

Marion Davies demonstrates her dramatic skills in a sumptuously appointed melodrama pairing her with Leslie Howard

Based on The Boy from Oklahoma (1954)

they'll ride the adrenaline rush of dramas that shape the world and their own lives

Inside is the full text of the original novel

shipshape cast: Anne Francis

any resistance is futile: unstoppable laughter always follows

the very drug used to wipe her memory