The movie begins with a director filming his last effort which takes place in jail and ends in the same cell ,so to speak ,whilst the unfortunate metteur en scène repeats his in-law's rules to make a bankable movie ;but he concludes : "unfortunately ,no happy end".
The follow-up to " strange fascination" , "the other woman " follows the same pattern : an artist (a director,a great pianist) , who's got a goodwill female help (a wife, a manager) and who falls prey to a pretty go-getter and her boyfriend.
The blonde (the habituée Cleo Moore) harasses ,blackmails and threatens the miserable director (Hugo Haas has a tendency to play more or less the same part since his very beginning in America -see "pick-up" (1951))till he is pushed to breaking point . Besides he is humiliated by his wealthy father-in-law who pushes him to make commercial movies .
The follow-up to " strange fascination" , "the other woman " follows the same pattern : an artist (a director,a great pianist) , who's got a goodwill female help (a wife, a manager) and who falls prey to a pretty go-getter and her boyfriend.
The blonde (the habituée Cleo Moore) harasses ,blackmails and threatens the miserable director (Hugo Haas has a tendency to play more or less the same part since his very beginning in America -see "pick-up" (1951))till he is pushed to breaking point . Besides he is humiliated by his wealthy father-in-law who pushes him to make commercial movies .