A story (by Jean Holloway and Alexandre Bisson) that belongs more in the 1940s, somehow, in melodramatic tale of woman (Lana Turner) who accidentally kills lover, and whose vindictive mother-in-law uses it to force her to pretend to be dead and abandon her young son. Years later... (Maltin reveals it was filmed many times before as early as 1906.)
Another Ross Hunter Universal production, it's... I mean Bonne and Clyde was just around the corner. Did this film make money? It seems anachronistic.
Same talents of Frank Skinner and Russell Metty enhance production, and ending is dramatically effective, with much older Turner being defended for murder unwittingly by her own son (Keir Dullea).
What we needed was some come-uppance for the twisted mother-in-law (Constance Bennett). When her son John Forsythe found out he must have been furious.
With Ricardo Montalban, Burgess Meredith, John Van Dreelen, Virginia Grey.
Scene where Turner falls over into the Universal - Danish snow made me laugh.
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