This thriller from MGM and director George B. Seitz involves a generous, wealthy woman (Aline MacMahon) who is taken advantage of by an impoverished artist (Basil Rathbone) and his gang of cohorts. Also featuring Frank Albertson, Dudley Digges, Mary Carlisle, Doris Lloyd, Murray Kinnell, and Donald Meek.
I watched the 1951 remake, starring Ethel Barrymore and Maurice Evans, sometime last year, and this version is much the same. MacMahon is an actress of this period that I like quite a bit, and she brings something different to the part than Barrymore did in the later film. Barrymore's age was seen as a factor in the villains' exploitation of her, while in this earlier version it's more a matter of MacMahon's fragile emotional state. Rathbone is good, as usual, as the cunning, slightly conflicted rogue.
I watched the 1951 remake, starring Ethel Barrymore and Maurice Evans, sometime last year, and this version is much the same. MacMahon is an actress of this period that I like quite a bit, and she brings something different to the part than Barrymore did in the later film. Barrymore's age was seen as a factor in the villains' exploitation of her, while in this earlier version it's more a matter of MacMahon's fragile emotional state. Rathbone is good, as usual, as the cunning, slightly conflicted rogue.