Charles Boyer in Aldous Huxley's "A Woman's Vengeance" (1948) feat. Jessica Tandy

[@Bebedollie]

I like these old movies more than all the new movies nowadays

[@rosemariemann1719]

And me ! They put so much more effort into the stories, scripts, sets, costumes, lighting, etc. The modern folk , especially the ladies, don't have the individuality of the " old timers " ! And so many resort to violence, " blood and guts " , and nastiness, thinking that's entertainment.🤔... Not long ago, saw " The Razor's Edge" : Tyrone Power & co. : recommending it : 😊: not sure if I dare watch the more recent version, but will probably, just to see what they make of it ! 😊 Educational ! 🦉😊 🇬🇧🦉😊⭐💙🌈🇬🇧

[@dtaylor939]

Today's movies seem to have a very distinct political agenda to push.

[@DonaldPBorchersOG]

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[@tigerlillyfeelfree1695]

Todays movies are soul less as are most of the actors. I used to have lots of favourite actors until recent years.

[@AmyLewis-ui9kq]

They had class!

[@1LSWilliam]

This is existential realism at its rarest. Powerful script. Boyer at his very convincing best!

[@jamesclemons632]

😂😂😂 Oh plz!

[@coreycox2345]

It was entertaining, @1LSWilliam. There were a few cliches.

[@DonaldPBorchersOG]

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[@AtelierCSP-zb3lp]

Awfull fry voice. It's admirable that he was a major actor.

[@stevehinnenkamp5625]

Difficult film to digest. Great cast, I indeed! Well directed, lighting, spectacular. Of all actors Jessica Tandy impressed me most. And this was I'm comparison to a truly magnificent cast. Thank you Aldous.

[@DonaldPBorchersOG]

Couldn't agree more. Glad you enjoyed it!

[@90FF1]

With a cast like this, a somewhat predictable love triangle/murder mystery was taken to a higher level. Thank you.

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[@markhughes7927]

Seamless flow of meaning, wise, with well formed manners…completely arresting..great job old masters..

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[@rubytuesday5412]

This is a fave movie. I watch it every year. Thanks Mr. Borchers.

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[@dtaylor939]

Thank you Donald for another lovely film

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[@highlightoftheday7058]

Very good film. Thank you for posting.

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[@jacquelinerussell1591]

Exceptional classic TCM Movie .I have been blessed by this movie over an over again.Dont pass judgement or criticism on J.C. She was an excellent actress an will pray that her beautiful family will have a Merry Christmas an a Happy New Year !God be with them !

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[@ladyj3474]

Fabulous piece of work. Thank you AH.

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[@ohmandy1372]

I like these old movies. Excellent writers and actors.

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[@revvyhevvy]

Thanks, Mr Borchers! Ms Tandy showed her dark side, and was quite believable! Excellent movie!

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[@CarolStJohn-ev9ry]

Good movie, Jessica Tandy was especially good.

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[@1LSWilliam]

This film of Huxley's novel is close to being superb. I must soon see it again before giving a final verdict.

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[@sararichardson737]

Wonderful. Thank you.

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[@spacecowgurl57]

Donald, you keep diligence at giving the best🎉❤

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[@lucindamoran8686]

Great movie! Thank you! Very good!🎉

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[@aadamtx]

Very nice noir, one I hadn't come across. Intelligent script by Huxley (was there any doubt?), plus a powerhouse cast of Oscar and Tony winners (the Oscar for Tandy) and nominees, including Boyer, Blyth, Natwick, and Tandy. Blyth is still with us at 95 years old and holds the distinction as the earliest living Academy Award nominee.

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[@wendybutler1681]

This could never be this good if it was made today. They'd stick in lots of gratuitous sex, a couple car chases and violence and ruin a really good story.

[@rescuepetsrule6842]

IKR. They pander to the brain dead types that want entertainment- not talent.

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[@RetiredSchoolCook]

🥰Thank you 👍Great movie 👍

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[@RichardNogan]

Deep dark and held with consequences. Well done. Tku for post.

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[@Lake1920]

Thank you for this excellent film. Haven’t seen it in years.

[@DonaldPBorchersOG]

Welcome. Glad you enjoyed it. Fond memories.

[@starrover4154]

Exceptional psychological drama.

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[@tigerjaverxie3634]

a big movie of big guy. Huxley aldous great writer and thinker. The world owed him a noble prize. Brave new world❤❤❤❤

[@NancySanders-om4ic]

I agree with you regarding the Nobel Peace Prize.

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[@mrsmarple2655]

Brave new world made me feel nauseous 🤢

[@bobbaker8263]

Excellent movie.

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[@bernadettecullinan6841]

Great cast .

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[@keithdonovan5236]

You can hear Huxley's philosophy of life and death in the words Boyer's character says to his young wife very close to the end of the film. A wonderful treat to hear and see.

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[@eshaibraheem4218]

Good film. Thank you.

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[@bevyd8866]

Excellent

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[@spinozareader]

What a treat of a channel!! I've never seen "Children of the Corn." (I know. How *does* such a thing happen?! But, then again, I met someone several years ago who'd never seen "The Wizard of Oz" in all his twenty-two years. And he was born in and grew up in the States. Baffling.)

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[@douglasfriedman5032]

Everybody was wonderful, You just can't get anymore noire. Very difficult to believe how far people will go to have someone,

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[@fionah3433]

Ann Blyth is still living. Turns 96 in August.

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[@jamesbugbee9026]

Korda comes thru again! And putting togerher 2 of my favoeite actresses: Jessica Tandy & Mildred Natwicke ❤❤❤ ❤❤❤ Huxley's version of such a story is also a triumph

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[@NancySanders-om4ic]

Very well acted.

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[@leonasimmons7236]

Love the old movie ❤

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[@MyUsernameIsGuess]

A truly diabolical plot.

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[@normapovey6268]

Great movie thanks

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[@SallyM-od6xg]

Amazing film!

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[@ElkoJohn]

Much obliged.

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[@1LSWilliam]

This one film only for the strong. It is darker than dark, even after the end.

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[@rosemariemann1719]

I love a happy ending ! Jolly good ! 😊🦉 🇬🇧🦉💙😊🌈⭐🇬🇧

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[@thomassnider6691]

Sir Cedric Hardwicke gave a great performance. I'm glad there was no miscarriage of justice, because the entire case was built on only circumstantial evidence, the flimsiest evidence there is.

[@donmateo3728]

bravo Sir Cedric...however, MANY MANY accused people have been imprisoned and/or executed...on circumstantial EVIDENCE.

[@thomassnider6691]

@@donmateo3728 Sad but true. Sometimes it's the only answer, but it's usually lazy detectives taking the easy way out.

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[@thomassnider6691]

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[@cattymajiv]

It's not necessarily lazy at all. Circumstantial evidence can still prove a case in a very solid way. Circumstances can be just as correct and just as convincing as scientific evidence. It just depends on what that evidence is. Even DNA can be fraudulently placed on a surface, and DNA evidence can be stolen, lost, or falsified at several places along the way, including in the lab. It has actually happened in US labs in more than 1 case. Probably also in other countries.

[@redblade8160]

Every time I hear Charles Boyer's voice, I always think of Pepé Le Pew, the skunk!

[@pigalleycatemanresu7321]

Don't you mean Pépé le Moko?

[@affliction6911]

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[@johnshifflette1218]

Exactly...Pepe oh Pepe ​@@pigalleycatemanresu7321

[@DonaldPBorchersOG]

Ha! Thanks for sharing.

[@spinozareader]

I always think of Ingrid Bergman. :)

[@emf49]

I’ve seen this film a couple of times but did not realize it was written by Aldous Huxley of ‘Brave New World’ fame. I shall view it agaín through a different lens. 😎

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[@mlight7402]

The truth shall set you free.

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[@historybuffer3912]

So much better than anything made after about 2000

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[@TheBartok44]

That was a really great movie - outstanding, the screenplay and the acting (a little stiff for modern taste, maybe) - great story, great movie.

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[@janice8514]

The line by the Dr. to Doris "some women cry as a pig grunts".

[@DonaldPBorchersOG]

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[@1LSWilliam]

The magnificent storm scene. How doth Naturalism haunt us all!!

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[@ADAMSIXTIES]

7:50 Ann Blyth's got it goin' on!. 🎆 12:08 "You're invited to lunch on my 80th birthday". Charles Boyer died 2 days before his 79th Jessica Thandy lived to 85.

[@cynthiaa5302]

Charles Boyer was a true romantic. He killed himself 2 days after his wife of 44 years died of a brain tumor

[@leepe6956]

And Ann Blyth is still hanging in there @ age 96 (as of 6/2024)!

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[@rescuepetsrule6842]

Jessica Tandy was a great actress, IMO. Pity she wasn't in more good movies in her youth- she sure won every award there was as an older woman. Henry's wife... i'da buried her alive, still ranting and whining-lol. TY-good post!

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[@chicagogyrl4846]

Why did I even marry you??! Wonderful thing to hear from your newly wedded husband!!

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[@lisawentworth6831]

Jessica Tandy was a pleasant looking woman. I only remember her in things like Driving Miss Daisy or Fried Green Tomatoes

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[@Corina-dq2my]

I love old movies 🍿

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[@robincutti4596]

Splendid movie…. Although is a little incomprehensible how the timing of offering to get the medication matches with ….. Almost impossible in reality!

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[@Morrissey_04]

❤❤❤❤❤❤❤ beautiful movie wow Boyer and his playboy 😅 great mystery movie.

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[@DannyHood-j]

The same Aldous Huxley who wrote ‘Doors of perception’.

[@DonaldPBorchersOG]

Yes. While this film was fiction, "The Doors of Perception" provoked strong reactions for its evaluation of psychedelic drugs as facilitators of mystical insight with great potential benefits for science, art, and religion.

[@justtubingby129]

Interesting, how short all the actors are.

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[@rabit818]

It’s Vida from Mildred Pierce lol

[@missdebbie6303]

Yeah that dirty little Vida!

[@DonaldPBorchersOG]

Roger that. Ann Blyth, who appears as Doris Mead here, appeared as Veda Pierce in "Mildred Pierce" (1945). Thanks for watching!

[@johnsmith-ht3sy]

27:00 For those that do not reside in England here is the class system at its finest, the maid has a common cockney accent and the Lady a cultured accent.

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[@vanessabrossard6141]

About 20 different titles for this film on utube!

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[@chicagogyrl4846]

She’s only known him for a few months but she gets pregnant and married him because he’s filthy rich!! 😂🤣

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[@chicagogyrl4846]

First she says she knows he doesn’t love her, then she gets pregnant and marries him!! 😂🤣

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[@deborahburroughs8905]

OK this old man gets an 18 year old girl pregnant while he’s still married to his old, sick wife and everybody keeps telling the 18 year old she needs to act her age truly the sign of the Times. Thank God for women’s Lib.❤

[@johng4093]

That horrible wife would have driven any man away.

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[@rootsrockers109]

Very good twist. Pity i started to suspect Janet after he told his wife he had not done it. I was right, but still enjoyed it till the end.

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[@MrUdayNarainPandeySharadNPande]

Could go through the above vacant houses again and again and again. Many too Many times over

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[@JamesSimmons-d1t]

Your detailed review is perfect. A Korda, Tandy, Ceddie Hardwicke....wow. Well done. Your other films are not always the best, but copyright laws exist and "toute cette sorte de choses", as the protoBrits say in ASTERIX EN BRETAGNE. Bravissim. 'Ab imo pectore'. As the roman soldiers say in same series.

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[@yolandavillamilruiz882]

Holi saludos, desde Sincelejo Sucre Zona Norte de Colombia, que pesar que es en inglés aunque tiene traducion a mi me es difícil leer se ve que es buena.tengo 78 años me gustan las películas antiguas o de época. Gracias no la veré

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[@mitnaalexander5190]

I too love these old movies,now a days it's all crap😅

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[@audreydaleski1067]

Sir Cedric!

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[@elibravo9710]

que bueno que paso ese susto por traicionar a su esposa pero siempre gana el cinismo

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[@ceciliapreziose3783]

Wow

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[@meofamily4]

I've never seen a plot which so resembled Crime and Punishment, by Dostoevsky, but in the female aspect.

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[@adamnoman4658]

The comparison is not quite just since the sociopathologic element of a grandiose sense of moral superiority in Raskolnikov is absent in Janet. Her motivation is entirely conventional in its personal and emotional characteristics, and, if anything, her psychological delusions adopt the identity of an avenging angel of the moral order, not a Luciferian rebel against it. - -

[@meofamily4]

@@adamnoman4658 Raskolnikov killed the pawnbroker because his way to advancement and status was blocked by poverty, and he saw the pawnbroker as a means of rising in power and status. Janet was interested in a successful relationship, and killed another woman who hated the man she, Janet, loved. Then, humiliated by the rejection -- as was Raskolnikov by the failure of his plans for advancement -- she went on to collaborate in framing her love object. Both confessed at the end because of the guilt they felt for taking a human life. Males crave power and status and women wish to bond with men of power and status.

[@adamnoman4658]

​@@meofamily4 Your own summary of these two stories of characters who may be said to commit the "same" crime in the legal sense reinforces the view that their motivations for, behaviors in, and reactions to committing of their decidedly separate murders, Raskolnikov and Janet are indeed quite different themselves. That they both had their reasons is their one point of contact, but then that is common to all human conscious action, isn't it? - -

[@audreydaleski1067]

She poisoned herself?

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[@audreydaleski1067]

Would he leave her well off?

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[@HAPPYTHELEAF]

Good movie,but they just did not know how to write what was an obvious ending what a pity.

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[@ruthnaranjo344]

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[@audreydaleski1067]

Ronald Coleman

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In 1947, Ronald Colman won an Academy Award for Best Actor and Golden Globe Award for Best Actor for the film "A Double Life".

[@alarahillton1343]

Can’t take Boyer. Ugh. He and she were both narcissists. He’s overt. She, covert. But I’d rather of seen him die. Because of his disgusting lack of morals and character. Just using women till the end. Didn’t believe he loved anyone. Pity the poor young wife and baby…

[@90FF1]

i think you are describing Boyer's character. In real life he was none of things you accuse him of.

[@terry4137]

She knew he didn’t love her! She’s not innocent here.

[@ohmandy1372]

​@@terry4137It is a movie.....great acting, in my opinion.

[@DonaldPBorchersOG]

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[@missrosecomfort]

aldous huxley was some kind of a weird guy!

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[@stevehinnenkamp5625]

I am great fan of Aldous Huxley novels. Mr. Huxley should have stuck to novels. His sense of drama is non-existent similar to the unproduced plays of Henry James.

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[@ernakruger1112]

Good storyline but such bad actors, all of them

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[@markpalmer7832]

Only worse than English cooking is French cooking

[@marijo1951]

English cooking definitely deserved its terrible reputation at the time the film was made, but things have changed very much for the better, thank goodness!

[@f.drachenfels4503]

@@marijo1951I lived in England in 1972 and experienced the cuisine first hand, my memories are not the most pleasant.

[@marijo1951]

@@f.drachenfels4503 If you get the chance, visit again. You'll have a pleasant surprise at how food has improved.

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[@Carla-s9c]

Excellent

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