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This Woman Is Dangerous is a american film of genre Drama directed by Felix E. Feist released in USA on 9 february 1952 with Joan Crawford
This Woman Is Dangerous (1952)
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Add to a movie listThis Woman is Dangerous (1952) is a Warner Bros. feature film starring Joan Crawford, David Brian, and Dennis Morgan in a story about a gun moll's romances with two different men. The screenplay by Geoffrey Homes and George Worthing Yates was based on a story by Bernard Girard. The film was directed by Felix E. Feist and produced by Robert Sisk. Soon after the film was released, Crawford left Warner Bros. studio.
In 1973, during the "Legendary Ladies" show at Town Hall, when asked, "Which one of your films do you regret making?" Joan Crawford told the audience that she considered This Woman Is Dangerous her worst film.
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Beth Austin (Joan Crawford) is the leader of a hold-up gang and the mistress of its most cold-blooded killer Matt Jackson (David Brian). In New Orleans, the group robs a casino by impersonating police officers. After taking in a haul of $90,000 ($791,000 in 2013 dollars), she tells Matt that she has suffered from failing eyesight and needs to travel to an eye clinic in Indiana to have an advanced operation. While initially mad that she is leaving the group, he promises to lie low until she returns.Actors
Joan Crawford
(Elizabeth Austin)
Dennis Morgan
(Dr. Ben Halleck)
David Brian
(Matt Jackson)
Richard Webb
(James A. Franklin)
Mari Aldon
(Ann Jackson)
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