

After marrying a dour and disinterested lord for status, a young woman falls in love with a stage actor while her best friend from boarding school enters an affair with her husband.
Costume
Margaret Lockwood's gowns are weapons of social warfare.
Acting
Mason's sneer could curdle cream; Lockwood's vengeance is chef's kiss.
Cinematography
Shadow-drenched Victorian interiors that breathe repression.
Director
Leslie Arliss
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Gainsborough Studios cornered the 'costume melodrama' market during WWII, giving British audiences escapist scandal when reality was grim.
Margaret Lockwood became Britain's biggest female star off this role; her 'wicked lady' archetype defined 1940s British cinema's complicated relationship with female desire.
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