This Was a Woman

Crime, Drama

🎬 Critics Choice Nominee

Director Tim Whelan

Status Released

Release Date 1948-01-27

Storyline

The woman here is Sylvia Russell: power mad with set goals. In order to achieve those goals she is sadistically devoted to her son and daughter, able to possess and direct them. She subtly ruins her daughter's marriage by corrupting a servant girl and, then, uses her to compromise her son-in-law; slowly breaks her bumbling, unambitious husband's confidence...