Madeleine (1950)

NR02/16/1950Drama, Crime, Mystery1h 54m
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Overview

The middle-class family of a young woman cannot understand why she delays in marrying a respectable young man. They know nothing about her long-standing affair with a Frenchman.

Top Billed Cast

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    Ann Todd

    Madeleine Hamilton Smith

  2. Cast 1

    Norman Wooland

    William Minnoch

  3. Cast 1

    Ivan Desny

    Emile L'Angelier

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    Leslie Banks

    James Smith

  5. Cast 1

    Elizabeth Sellars

    Christina Haggott

  6. Cast 1

    André Morell

    Defense Attorney

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    Barbara Everest

    Mrs. Smith

  8. Cast 1

    Susan Stranks

    Janet Smith

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    Patricia Raine

    Bessie Smith

Ann Todd becomes better as she plays herself into the character of a rather devious and unscrupulous girl in this adaptation of a famous Glasgow murder (or, perhaps that should be murrrrdurrrr) tale from 1857. "Madeleine" is the daughter in a well-to-do family whose father (a seriously authoritarian Leslie Banks) can't quite figure out why she won't marry a suitable young man - unawares that she has been having a fling with an equally unscrupulous Frenchman who has his sights set on her family's wealth. His attempts at blackmail terminally backfire and before long she is on trial for his killi...

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Original LanguageEnglish 

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