Another Man's Poison

1952 "She Had Everything You Could Give A Woman To Torment A Man!"

Another Man's Poison

6.8 | 1h30m | NR | en | Drama

Novelist Janet Frobisher, lives in an isolated house, having been separated for years from her criminal husband. She has fallen in love with her secretary's fiancé and when her estranged husband unexpectedly appears, Janet poisons him, but just as she's about to dispose of the body, one of her husband's criminal cohorts also shows up.

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6.8 | 1h30m | NR | en | Drama , Thriller , Crime | More Info

Released: January. 06,1952 | Released Producted By: Angel Productions , Country: United Kingdom Budget: 0 Revenue: 0 Official Website:

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Cast

Bette Davis , Gary Merrill , Emlyn Williams

Director

Cedric Dawe

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Bette Davis

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Reviews

writers_reign This was one of the last films in which Bette Davis would play love scenes although as a fine actress she didn't have to rely on sex appeal to obtain work. There was something of an old-home-week atmosphere at work here; seven years earlier she had played Miss Moffat in The Corn Is Green, a huge stage success written by Emlyn Williams, who played opposite her here and apart from that the director was journeyman Irving Rapper who made several movies with Davis including Now, Voyager. The actual film is about one step above a pot-boiler and would be difficult to make work without a lead of Davis' calibre. She was still in the first full year of her marriage to Gary Merrill which may explain why he was cast as her leading man and it's interesting to note that the ending is not unlike Duel In The Sun without the desert.

moonspinner55 Leslie Sands' stilted play "Deadlock" becomes a poor-choice vehicle for Bette Davis and Gary Merrill, following their joint-success in "All About Eve". After killing her spouse, a scheming woman is visited by her husband's best friend, who passes himself off as her husband once other people begin dropping by. Irving Rapper, one of Bette's best directors from her peak years, is sadly unable to elevate this ridiculous material, in which Davis is curiously aloof and restrained until the outrageous finale (where she thankfully pulls out all the stops). Production and supporting cast second-rate. Mainly for Bette Davis completists. ** from ****

howardmorley I awarded this film 6/10 and you can see how Bette Davis is gradually moving to her later horror style which she reached her apogee in "Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?".It is so obviously a filmed stage play with 95% of the action filmed in Betty's Yorkshire country house but there are a few token scenes of her and her co-male actors riding over the Yorkshire moors however.An irritating continuity problem is when actors open and come through the front door seemingly without keys and suddenly appear inside your living room this still happens in stupid "soaps" like "Eastenders" especially when the home-help has not started her duties!I only saw this film because someone uploaded it onto "Youtube.com".Gary Merrill plays a less sympathetic character than he played in "All About Eve".A slightly above average film.

jjnxn-1 Overblown melodrama with Bette pulling out all the stops and putting any idea of subtlety aside. If you enjoy films where she turns in that sort of performance as opposed to her quieter work in films like Dark Victory or Watch on the Rhine than this is for you. Reunited with her Now, Voyager director but certainly not on a script of that calibre he seems unable to rein her in, everybody else tries to compete and while the rest of the cast turn in decent performances when Bette struts into view blowing smoke and popping her eyes no one else stands a chance. Filmed directly after one of her best performances in All About Eve and with new husband Gary Merrill in tow she apparently didn't think much of the script and as she sometimes did when faced with less than stellar material she plays to the balconies. Deliciously grand and over the top.