The Girl in the Red Velvet Swing (1955 Richard Fleischer)

Likely then one of Joan Collins' first American films. Based on the true 1906 White-Thaw murder case, adapted for the screen by Charles Brackett and Walter Reisch for Fox.

Married architect Ray Milland tries but cannot keep his hands off young Collins but eventually sends her away to finishing school, where multi-millionaire psycho Farley Granger moves in and (somehow) sweeps her off her feet - all in Milton Krasner's gloriously unshadowy CinemaScope Technicolor. Then an audacious in cold blood murder, with witnesses aplenty. But then I thought I'd remembered a scene that then wan't in it, of Collins revealing a repressed memory - it was clearly I who had the memory problem - a false memory.

With Glenda Farrell (Collins' mother), Cornelia Otis Skinner, Luther Adler (Granger's defense). 

Displays that amusing lack of cutting evident in early CinemaScope pictures. As a film it was only OK.