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The Woman in the Hall

Jean Simmons, Great Star of "Hamlet" and "Great Expectations" in a Thrilling New Role!

6.3(7)19471h 33m1

Lorna Blake, (Ursula Jeans) is a widow with two daughters. She augments her slender income by using her children to extort money - visiting the houses of the rich to tell a pathetic story and beg for help. And Lorna makes a rich capture when Sir Halmar Bernard, (Cecil Parker), proposes to her. She tells him that she has only one daughter, Molly (Jill Freud, credited as Jill Raymond). When her other daughter, Jay (Jean Simmons), is arrested for forging a cheque, she refuses to help her.

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English
  • courtroom
  • cons and scams
  • con woman

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Director

Jack Lee

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United Kingdom

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  • United KingdomGB

    • Theatrical27 Oct 1947

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The Woman in the Hall was released on 27 October 1947.

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    CinemaSerf

    7/7/2022

    6/10

    It is quite unusual to find Ursula Jeans in a leading role, and she does it rather well in this rather twisted story of a women who makes her way in life by lying and deceit. She must raise her two daughters, and does so by various means of extortion and malversation. As her daughters grow up, they cannot distinguish between right or wrong, nor truth and lie - so when Jeans finally dupes poor old Cecil Parker into ma…

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