The Two Mrs. Carrolls (1947)

NR03/04/1947Thriller, Drama1h 39m

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Never try to deceive two women!

Overview

Struggling artist Geoffrey Carroll meets Sally while on holiday in the country. A romance develops, but he doesn't tell her he's already married. Suffering from mental illness, Geoffrey returns home where he paints an impression of his wife as the angel of death and then promptly poisons her. He marries Sally but after a while he finds a strange urge to paint her as the angel of death too and history seems about to repeat itself.

Top Billed Cast

Humphrey Bogart
Geoffrey Carroll
Barbara Stanwyck
Sally Morton Carroll
Alexis Smith
Cecily Latham
Nigel Bruce
Dr. Tuttle
Isobel Elsom
Mrs. Latham
Patrick O'Moore
Charles Pennington
Ann Carter
Beatrice Carroll
Anita Sharp-Bolster
Christine
Barry Bernard
Horace Blagdon

A review by John Chard

7.0

Written by John Chard on Jun 27, 2014

The Angels of Death. The Two Mrs. Carrolls is directed by Peter Godfrey and adapted to the screen by Thomas Job from the Martin Vale play. It stars Humphrey Bogart, Barbara Stanwyck, Alexis Smith, Nigel Bruce, Ann Carter and Patrick O’Moore. Music is by Franz Waxman and cinematography by Peverell Marley. Completed in 1945 but not released till 1947, The Two Mrs. Carrolls is one of those films that has an abundance of stories to match the abundance of divisive reviews. Various biographers and cinema writers tell a different story about stuff like what Bogart and Stanwyck thought of the mo...