Director Basil Dearden seems, here, to have temporarily misplaced the vigorous insight that has earned him some top credits. Best that can be said of Straw [from the novel by Catherine Arley] is that it looks handsome. But the film gets bogged down by stilted dialog and by the situations.
Woman of Straw
United Kingdom · 1964
2h 2m
Director Basil Dearden
Starring Gina Lollobrigida, Sean Connery, Ralph Richardson, Alexander Knox
Genre Crime, Drama, Thriller
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Anthony Richmond schemes to get the fortune of his tyrannical, wheelchair-using tycoon uncle Charles Richmond by persuading Maria, a nurse he employs, to marry him.
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