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The Wicked Lady is a British film of genre Drama directed by Leslie Arliss released in USA on 21 december 1946 with Margaret Lockwood

The Wicked Lady (1946)

The Wicked Lady
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Released in USA 21 december 1946
Length 1h44
Directed by
Genres Drama,    Thriller,    Swashbuckler,    Adventure,    Historical
Rating67% 3.392113.392113.392113.392113.39211

The Wicked Lady is a 1945 film starring Margaret Lockwood in the title role as a nobleman's wife who secretly becomes a highwayman for the excitement. The film has one of the top audiences ever for a film of its period, 18.4 million It was one of the Gainsborough melodramas, a sequence of very popular films made during the 1940s.

The story was based on the novel The Life and Death of the Wicked Lady Skelton by Magdalen King-Hall, which in turn, was based upon the (disputed) events surrounding the life of Lady Katherine Ferrers, the wife of the major landowner in Markyate on the main London–Birmingham road.

The film was loosely remade by Michael Winner as The Wicked Lady in 1983.

Synopsis

Caroline (Patricia Roc) invites her beautiful, green-eyed friend Barbara (Margaret Lockwood) to her upcoming wedding to wealthy landowner and local magistrate Sir Ralph Skelton (Griffith Jones). A scheming Barbara soon has Sir Ralph totally entranced. Caroline, wishing only his happiness, stands aside, and even allows Barbara to persuade her to be the maid of honour so as to lessen the scandal of the abrupt change of brides. At the wedding reception, Barbara meets a handsome stranger, Kit Locksby (Michael Rennie). It is love at first sight for both, but too late.

Actors

Margaret Lockwood

(Barbara Worth)James Mason

(Captain Jerry Jackson)Patricia Roc

(Caroline)Griffith Jones

(Sir Ralph Skelton)Michael Rennie

(Kit Locksby)
And :
Felix Aylmer
Jean Kent
Enid Stamp Taylor
Francis Lister
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