痴心女子/负心郎

剧情简介

Novelist -+)\Jo seph Shearing specia :lized in using real case;s which took plac_e i_(n Victorian E]ngland,@ .alt
ering them
fo%r fic@tional purposes. MOSS ROS$E#`( in 1
=94:7.!^ w][as t he @/`f irst f*\ilm\ t*(o be made from his n()!^ovels,(` then in 1948 two of his work[-%@s were ad ;apted for t:?he sc(\reen, t his f ilm)^ and TH;E M.$ARK ?O_ F CA.IN. The^; m+[ovie sta@`rs Todd ; - as a recently widowed^/ missionary retur[!/;ni=++ng to $ _her home in Eng( lan*(d from J?*@amaica. D?uring#_ !.the voyag@e,!*-. she meets Milland, /;a c?harming thoug`h -dangerous @ rascal w#:$ h@@o i?=s wante /d by*
police ^,-in^, c+` onnec tion :(with . ,some unsavory!] !/d`+ealings. Mi,lland ,contra!
cts malaria while onboard the ship[ and T+$*odd n`]$urses hi#m b]a!c?)k# to health. In ?_London, -_To^dd se*.ttles;# into; ; he
/r home, taking in: boa+][$rder#s to ma`k!e;: ends me#(et.; Milland / *a^rr+ives, moves i*n, and proclaims his love+.) for her. Todd) is %.thrilled, but it ?)seems rather obvi#ous that Mil%land is only toyi 
? ng with her. Milla[)nd finds some l(etter(s% written to ^]her by her= friend, Fitzgerald, in whic!
h [+Fitzg+_eral!d reve`/,als some of her sex\-+ual( $;ind:iscretions. Since .^? Fi[[ (tzgerald is now ma/rried t]%[*o _$=^the wealthy Huntley, Millan@[+d believes he can use the $^l,/_et
]t )ers to :blac+kmail Fitz+%(gerald. , ?`Tod$d's love for Milland _,`+is (so great -
^that she =%goes/$ al].;)ong wit-!h the pla)\n. Hun[; tley, howev%
.e\@r, #(learns of/ th/`e ;scheme and also /[uncovers `deta
i+?l.s of Milland's s`hady pas* t. Fearing #for)[ her lover:'s safet]y, To)dd poisons Hun;tl ey, !].then rem,ai%!#ns s
?#ilent when,?[=@ Fi(,tzg://erald is arrested for the mu*rder. Milland?
has :*:by no/?w `@.genuine ly fallen in l; ]o ve with Todd.-; an$$#d;@# the two m;$:ake plans to leave Eng$land. Before they #can%). depa@]rt,` o ?n#)e of Mil%land's f--ormer lovers sh.+ ows up and Todd, in a jealous rage, kills Milland, th%en * tu -r#*@ns herself i?nt?o t -he police (.　　Th
(is is a,)n in^/trigu)[ing film?, alt`
(hough a litt
,le on the ta!l# ^ky side. The per)[fo/rma*, nces are excelle(]nt t?- hrou#@ghout, $with Mil.-$l%(
a?//nd `#shining as the c?
ad-, the ty`_pe )?of !role in wh/ich he \*exce++lle\d. Thoug]h ( he spe+^nt most o\+f hi@s `^time making films )in the US,- he occasionally-%[ re
?*#turned t^_o his native Englan;d for #!a production =and this was his first Brit\!ish =%film s*_ince FRENCH[ WITHOUT TEARS in 19,)+39. +D ] )ire+$ctor Al^/_len was als$`o an Englishman\ - who c

ho`se to work in+ the (]US, this bei-ng his first_/ director-= @ial effor@t in hi!s homeland. Thi.s  !]wa_#s the fourth and la . `st 
time/ Mi/lla;_nd and Allen w, ^!ou ld w(ork t `*oge)t= he/r,  their pairi]+ng having beg?;/un in 19^/44 with $the w:on/derf:ull$* y eerie TH^?E$$ UNIN#_VITED.