Saturday, March 14, 2009

Watched "Madame X" last night. It's one of those 1960's glossy melodramas with Lana Turner playing a woman married to an up and coming politician from a prominent family who is forced to give up her husband and son over a scandal, fakes her death, and leaves town. Twenty years later, in a twist, she goes on trial for murder and is defended by her own son. Melodramatic and full of plot holes, it's definitely Turner's movie, and she's great in it. John Forsythe is fine as the husband (he has the best voice ever) and Constance Bennett (in her last movie) is appropriately malevolent as the nasty mother-in-law who forces Turner out. Ricardo Montalban plays the unfortunate playboy, and Burgess Meredith is extremely villainous as the man Turner shoots and kills in order to stop his blackmail. An interesting picture to watch, lovely to look at, and actually not a bad story.

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