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This Was a Woman is a 1948 British crime film directed by Tim Whelan and starring Sonia Dresdel, Walter Fitzgerald and Emrys Jones. It was made at the Riverside Studios with sets designed by the art directors Ivan King and Andrew Mazzei.
This Was a Woman: Directed by Tim Whelan. With Sonia Dresdel, Barbara White, Walter Fitzgerald, Cyril Raymond. A wife whose goal is power begins a game of manipulation that insidiously destroys her family.
“I would have enjoyed power,” says Sylvia Russell (Sonia Dresdel), the manipulative matriarch who succeeds in destroying her household in Tim Whelan’s This Was a Woman.
To achieve her own ambitious goals, a woman destroys her family by ruining her daughter's marriage and poisoning her husband.
A wife whose goal is power begins a game of manipulation that insidiously destroys her family. Sylvia Russell is power-mad and has some set goals.
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, finds in her husband’s executive friend the man she desires, and then …more. Cast. Crew. Details. Genres.
Director. Val Valentine. Screenplay. The woman here is Sylvia Russell, who is a bit power mad and has some set goals. In order to achieve those goals she is sadistically devoted to her son and daughter, able to possess and direct them.
