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The Reckless Moment is a american film of genre Drama directed by Max Ophüls released in USA on 29 december 1949 with James Mason
The Reckless Moment (1949)
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Add to a movie listThe Reckless Moment is a 1949 American film noir melodrama directed by Max Ophüls, produced by Walter Wanger, and released by Columbia Pictures with Burnett Guffey as cinematographer. Starring Joan Bennett and James Mason, the film is based on The Blank Wall (1947), a novel written by Elisabeth Sanxay Holding. The film The Deep End (2001) is based on the same story.
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California housewife Lucia Harper (Joan Bennett) attempts to cover up what she believes (erroneously) to be her daughter (Geraldine Brooks)'s accidental killing of an undesirable ex-lover Darby (Shepperd Strudwick).Actors
James Mason
(Martin Donnelly)
Joan Bennett
(Lucia Harper)
Geraldine Brooks
(Bea Harper)
Shepperd Strudwick
(Ted Darby)
Henry O'Neill
(Tom Harper)
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