Ethel Barrymore is the "Kind Lady" in this 1951 MGM suspenser, also starring Maurice Evans, Keenan Wynn, Angela Lansbury, and John Williams. Barrymore plays an elderly woman who falls for a con man's (Evans) ruse of a sick wife living in a cold flat with a baby and invites them to stay in her home. House servants (Lansbury and Wynn) who are actually his cohorts soon move in, and the lady is made a prisoner in her home as it is stripped of furnishings and art work.
A marvelous cast is directed by John Sturges in this neat, absorbing drama. Maurice Evans is excellent as a cold beast of a man; Angela Lansbury is Nancy of "Gaslight" grown older - cheap and cunning; Keenan Wynn is okay, but he doesn't seem very British. John Williams, as an insurance man, is very good as always in a familiar role for him.
At 72, Ethel Barrymore plays a strong and determined woman, nobody's fool, who is nevertheless compassionate and generous. It's a wonderful performance - she appears both tough and alternately frail in different parts of the film.
The set looked an awful lot like "Gaslight." The woman Mrs. Harkey (Moyna McGill) who comes looking for the maid Rose was Angela Lansbury's real-life mother. Talented ladies both.
Loved it.
A marvelous cast is directed by John Sturges in this neat, absorbing drama. Maurice Evans is excellent as a cold beast of a man; Angela Lansbury is Nancy of "Gaslight" grown older - cheap and cunning; Keenan Wynn is okay, but he doesn't seem very British. John Williams, as an insurance man, is very good as always in a familiar role for him.
At 72, Ethel Barrymore plays a strong and determined woman, nobody's fool, who is nevertheless compassionate and generous. It's a wonderful performance - she appears both tough and alternately frail in different parts of the film.
The set looked an awful lot like "Gaslight." The woman Mrs. Harkey (Moyna McGill) who comes looking for the maid Rose was Angela Lansbury's real-life mother. Talented ladies both.
Loved it.