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Titulo: The Unholy WifeAño: 1957
Pais: Estados Unidos
Director: John Farrow
Productor: John Farrow
Elenco: Diana Dors; Rod Steiger; Tom Tryon; Marie Windsor; Arthur Franz
Guion: William Durkee; Jonathan Latimer
Fotografia: Lucien Ballard
Duracion: 94 min.
Sinopsis:
Wealthy vintner Paul Hochen meets blonde bombshell Phyllis in a bar...and marries her. In due course, Phyllis is bored by Paul, and finds an exciting new lover in rodeo rider San. To adjust matters, she forms a murderous scheme, which seems to be going wrong...or is it? Will irony intervene in time to thwart a seemingly perfect crime? (http://www.imdb.com)
Here's the NY Times review from 1958:
H.H.T.
Published: March 7, 1958
IF ever a lady needed a change, it's a good-looking British blonde named Diana Dors. In her first Hollywood release, "The Unholy Wife," she sits in prison, retells a murder case and marches to the gas chamber. Prior to the Mayfair's new drama, in "Blonde Sinner," (her British studio swan song last year) Miss Dors also roosted, behind bars and told another murder tale. And they hanged her. What next, boys—the chair?
Indeed, this might be an excellent time for the actress to take inventory or choose a comedy (her real forte). For the new R. K. O. production and Universal-International release, teaming her with Rod Steiger, is a dull, unholy mess, and an absolute waste of anyone's time. Including, we might add, that of the two principals.
Pretentiously tinted in garish color, and staged with coronation pomp by director-producer John Farrow, the picture is a hollow, tawdry little drama of frustration, violence and a loveless marriage in California's Napa Valley. As a disillusioned divorcée, Miss Dors is salvaged from a cheap night club by Mr. Steiger, a vineyard king, and installed as his bride in a big gothic ranch.
Bored with her moody spouse, who frankly prefers the company of her 6-year-old son, Miss Dors takes up with a cowboy, Tom Tryon. She then kills a neighbor and almost manages to frame her husband. But this unholy heroine is finally tried and convicted, ironically, for the accidental death of her ailing mother-in-law, Beulah Bondi.
Whatever the merits of a William Durkee story adapted by Jonathan Latimer, the plot suggests a James M. Cain version of "They Knew What They Wanted." The picture moves with such static self-consciousness that only three characterizations ring true. These are Arthur Franz, as a priest, Joe De Santis, as a neighbor, and, briefly, Marie Windsor, with a characteristically fine portrait of a tough gal.
Miss Dors seems bewildered, and no wonder. And certainly the most curious performance comes from burly Mr. Steiger, as the husband, whose vocal resonance ranges from Marlon Brando to Ronald Colman and back. Make up your mind, man. And next time let's hope they spare Miss Dors—literally.
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