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Director
  
Joseph Santley

Country
  
United States

6/10
IMDb

Duration
  

Language
  
English

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Release date
  
September 14, 1946 (1946-09-14) (United States)

Based on
  
He Fell Down Dead -Novel  by Virginia Perdue

Writer
  
Whitman Chambers (screenplay), C. Graham Baker (screenplay), Virginia Perdue (novel)

Shadow of a Woman is a 1946 American drama film noir directed by Joseph Santley, featuring Helmut Dantine and Andrea King. The film is based on the novel He Fell Down Dead written by Virginia Perdue.

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Plot

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A woman (Andrea King) on the verge of a breakdown marries a man (Helmut Dantine) she hardly knows, putting her in the path of fear and danger. She suspects her husband of plotting to kill his son from a previous marriage.

Cast

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  • Helmut Dantine as Dr. Eric Ryder
  • Andrea King as Brooke Gifford Ryder
  • William Prince as David G. MacKellar, Louise's Lawyer
  • John Alvin as Carl. Emma's son
  • Becky Brown as Genevieve Calvin
  • Richard Erdman as Joe, Counterman at Owl Lunch
  • Peggy Knudsen as Louise Ryder, Eric's Ex
  • Don McGuire as Johnnie, MacKellar's Photographer
  • Lisa Golm as Emma, Eric's Sister
  • Larry Geiger as Philip Ryder, Eric's Son
  • Monte Blue as Mike, Police Lieutenant
  • J. Scott Smart as Timothy Freeman
  • Leah Baird as Mrs. Calvin, Genevieve's Mother
  • Lottie Williams as Sarah the Calvin Maid
  • Paul Stanton as Dr. Nelson Norris

    • Reception

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    Film critic Dennis Schwartz panned the film, writing, "A failure in every possible way. Joseph Santley flatly directs this film noir adapted from Virginia Perdue's novel He Fell Down Dead. The script by writers C. Graham Baker and Whitman Chambers was lacking credibility. The acting was hammy and unconvincing. The film offered hardly any entertainment value and the irrelevant story was more of a turn off than anything else. On top of all that, there were serious gaffes in the plotline that filled the story with holes the size of craters. This postwar B-film melodrama reunites Hotel Berlin co-stars Helmut Dantine and Andrea King. Shadow of a Woman might be remembered by film buffs only because it played in an early restaurant scene "How Little We Know", the Hoagy Carmichael song that Lauren Bacall sang in To Have and Have Not."

    TV Guide wrote about the screenplay, writing, "A slightly unrealistic story line hinders this drama that deals with a bride's terror."

    References

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