The Forbidden Street
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Duration Language English | 6.4/10 IMDb Genre Drama, History Country United Kingdom | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Release date 31 March 1949 Writer Margery Sharp (novel), Ring Lardner Jr. Cast (Henry Lambert / Gilbert Lauderdale), (Adelaide 'Addie' Culver), (Mrs. 'The Sow' Mounsey (as Dame Sybil Thorndike)), (Mrs. Culver), A. E. Matthews (Mr. Bly), (The Blazer)Similar movies A Man About the House (1947) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The Forbidden Street is a 1949 British melodrama film directed by Jean Negulesco and starring Dana Andrews, Maureen O'Hara, Sybil Thorndike, Fay Compton and A. E. Matthews. In Victorian London, a young woman marries a poor drunken artist and struggles to make ends meet. After his death, she takes in a lodger whom she soon falls in love with.
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From a well to do family, Adelaide (Maureen O'Hara), over the objections of her family, marries an impoverished artist Henry Lambert (Dana Andrews) who is later killed in an accident when Adelaide pushes him away. Adelaide is blackmailed for two years by her neighbor, Mrs. Mounsey, a spiteful old hag (Sybil Thorndike) who claims to the police that Henry was killed accidentally.
Adelaide is still living in the Britannia Mews, when a young barrister, Gilbert Lauderdale (Dana Andrews), shows up who is the living image of Adelaide's late husband. He gets rid of the old woman by threatening to prosecute her for blackmail, eventually reunites Adelaide with her family, and along the way falls in love with her himself.
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