The Reckless Moment (The Blank Wall) (1949)

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Directed by

Max Ophüls

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Harry Wilson
Man in Bus Depot

Frances E. Williams
Sybil

Ann Shoemaker
Mrs. Catherine Feller

William Schallert
Police Lieutenant

John Roy
Man

Louis Mason
Mike

Evelyn Moriarty
Woman

Pat O'Malley
Bank Guard

Written by

Elisabeth Sanxay Holding

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Release date: 26 December 1949

Tags: Film Noir (4), Drama (2), Crime (1), 82 Min. (1), B&w (1), Usa (1), Death (1), Blackmail (1), 1949 (1)

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"Between her collaborations with Fritz Lang and role in Max Ophüls’s The Reckless Moment, Joan Bennett is surely the grande dame of noir. In Ophüls’s film, though, Bennet doesn’t play the role of the femme fatale, but a strong-willed mother struggling to maintain the seeming normalcy of her middle-class existence. Blackmail, murder, and dangerous gangsters all rear their ugly heads after Bennett’s Lucia, taking her role as protector of the family to irrational heights, disposes the body"

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