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Storyline

In flashback from a 'Rebecca'-style beginning: Ellen Foster, visiting her aunt on the California coast, meets neighbor Jeff Cohalan and his ultramodern clifftop house. Ellen is strongly attracted to Jeff, who's being plagued by unexplainable accidents, major and minor. Bad luck, persecution...or paranoia? Warned that Jeff could be dangerous, Ellen fears that he's in danger, as the menacing atmosphere darkens.

Not since 'SPELLBOUND' a masterpiece of suspense like this!

The Pine Cliff Paranoia. The Second Woman (AKA: Ellen) is directed by James V. Kern and co-written by Mort Briskin and Robert Smith. It stars Robert Young, Betsy Drake, John Sutton, Florence Bates, Morris Carnovsky and Henry ONeil. Music is by Joseph Nussbaum and cinematography by Hal Mohr. Architect Jeff Cohalan (Young) is a troubled man, after the mysterious death of his fiance in a car crash, he has been acting strangely and lives a lonely life at the Hilltop House he designed for his bride to be. When he meets Ellen Foster (Drake), things perk up as he becomes attracted to her. But he is constantly plagued by bad luck, something which doesnt go unnoticed by Ellen, who suspects that Jeff may not be the victim of paranoia, but of something sinister perpetrated by outside forces The Coast of Kings. If you can get away from the looming presence of such great films like Gaslight and Rebecca, then James Kerns movie holds some gothic noir rewards. The house at the centre of tale is a modern development, which is a shame as it goes against the coastal atmosphere lifting up from the Carmel-On-Sea location that was used for these parts of the film, but otherwise theres a strong brooding mystery bubbling away throughout. As the bizarre instances of misfortune start to mount up on Jeff Cohalan, with director Kern showing a good appreciation of pacing, it builds up a menacing head of steam and then unravels a better than adequate denouement. Vivian, Vivian, Vivian Young and Drake inevitably tug at a romantic thread, but they make for an engaging couple and Drake especially gets her teeth into a female role of intelligent substance. John Sutton files in for some decent caddish quotient and Bates and ONeil add some professionally elder support. Mohrs (Bullets or Ballets/The Lineup) photography is the key, consistently at one with the psychological beats of the plotting, his lighting compositions make the film seem far more higher in production value than it was. A tale of memory lapses, pet bothering, depression, ugly real estate, dastards and romance, is nicely cloaked by ominous coastal atmospherics and Tchaikovsky! 7/10

Movie details The Second Woman

Release : 1950-07-07
Genre : Drama, Film Noir
Runtime : 91 minutes
Company : Cardinal Pictures (II)

Cast

	Robert Young	as	Jeff Cohalan
	Betsy Drake	as	Ellen Foster
	John Sutton	as	Keith Ferris
	Florence Bates	as	Amelia Foster
	Morris Carnovsky	as	Dr. Raymond Hartley
	Henry O'Neill	as	Ben Sheppard
	Jean Rogers	as	Dodo Ferris
	Raymond Largay	as	Maj. Badger
	Shirley Ballard	as	Vivian Sheppard
	Vicki Raaf	as	Sue, Sheppard's Secretary (as Vici Raaf)
	Jason Robards Sr.	as	Stacy Rogers (as Jason Robards)
	Steven Geray	as	Balthazar Jones
	Jimmie Dodd	as	Mr. Nelson (as Jimmy Dodd)
	Smoki Whitfield	as	Albert, Club Car Waiter (as Smokey Whitfield)
	Cliff Clark	as	Police Sergeant

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