A poor but beautiful woman sets her sights on rising to the top, and lets nothing stand in her way - including murder.A poor but beautiful woman sets her sights on rising to the top, and lets nothing stand in her way - including murder.A poor but beautiful woman sets her sights on rising to the top, and lets nothing stand in her way - including murder.
Philip Carey
- Tim O'Bannion
- (as Phil Carey)
Gil Winfield
- Chuck
- (as Gilbert Winfield)
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- TriviaIn March 1957, Arlene Dahl sued Columbia in New York Supreme Court, charging that some images used to promote "Wicked as They Come" were composites of her face and another woman's body and that the resulting pictures were "obscene, degrading and offensive." In August 1957, the case was dismissed by New York Supreme Court Justice Henry Clay Greenberg.
- GoofsIn the flight from USA to UK, the aircraft starts off as a BOAC Boeing 377 Stratocruiser, becomes either a Handley Page H.P.81 Hermes or Douglas DC-7C in mid-flight, then is a Stratocruiser again on landing.
- Quotes
Kathleen 'Kathy' Allen, nee Allenborg: Girls like me don't usually get proposals - just propositions.
- ConnectionsReferenced in The Human Jungle: Struggle for a Mind (1964)
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The strange case of a woman who got all men but wanted none.
This is an amazing film for its very dense direction bringing the best out of a rather cheap story and some totally unknown B-actors, Herbert Marshall being the only film star among them and playing the shabbiest role. Arlene Dahl in the lead reminds very much of Kim Novak in films like "Vertigo" , the same kind of superior beauty with something wrong about her, while Michael Goodliffe, somewhat reminding of Trevor Howard, stands for the passion that turns on the drama. Philip Carey as the male lead succeeds in makíng a very complicated part and character quite convincing and likeable, the one who saves some human dignity in a pit of human pitfalls.
It's as a psychological drama that the film is highly interesting, modern and timeless. Almost everyone sees that there is something wrong about Kathy in her cruel disdain of men while at the same time everyone must fall for her, but no one can understand what the trouble is, least of all herself, or if she does, she keeps a splendid poker face and never loses her control, although, as it proves, she is constantly walking on a razor's edge by an abyss. There are also parallels to Polanski's "Repulsion", it's a related case, but here you get the full story, although not until the end. You are left hanging in the end with everything lost but hope, which is no more than a faint light that no one can know if it will survive.
Ken Hughes later made other excellent films, especially "The Trials of Oscar Wilde", and this is no less impressing in its extremely smooth psychological direction where nothing is out of the context, like a perfect jig-saw puzzle with no pieces missing and all fitting perfectly.
It's as a psychological drama that the film is highly interesting, modern and timeless. Almost everyone sees that there is something wrong about Kathy in her cruel disdain of men while at the same time everyone must fall for her, but no one can understand what the trouble is, least of all herself, or if she does, she keeps a splendid poker face and never loses her control, although, as it proves, she is constantly walking on a razor's edge by an abyss. There are also parallels to Polanski's "Repulsion", it's a related case, but here you get the full story, although not until the end. You are left hanging in the end with everything lost but hope, which is no more than a faint light that no one can know if it will survive.
Ken Hughes later made other excellent films, especially "The Trials of Oscar Wilde", and this is no less impressing in its extremely smooth psychological direction where nothing is out of the context, like a perfect jig-saw puzzle with no pieces missing and all fitting perfectly.
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- Feb 7, 2018
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- Runtime1 hour 34 minutes
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