In the Grip of Lies | English Full Movie

[@billgreen1861]

No intro and no outro, but, whether, A Woman's Vengeance or In The Grip of Lies, no matter what the title is this movie was made for all times. It's ageless, Jessica Tandy, Charles Boyer and a very young, Ann Blyth ( now 95 years ) how marvelous this cast of characters.

[@ThomasConrad-f3p]

Cecil Hardwicke's voice was the most remarkable feature of this movie; he gave life to Aldous Huxley's brillant lines. His vocal resonance was on the same par as that of George Sanders. This classic was seen years ago but still hasn't lost it's magic. An excellent cast and a 'compelling' story-line. In other words "they don't make them like that anymore"!!!

[@tammycocar1]

Agreed. He was brilliant in this.

[@serratograffiti]

Some lines had me laughing out loud.

[@ThomasConrad-f3p]

I have erased commernts penned in a momentary euphoria---it was a Mills and Boon film, anyway! Now you can find something else to laugh at, you silly woman!@@serratograffiti

[@EstherDonatocarner]

😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢QQqQQQwwww2wwwwwwwww

[@JCJTC]

Fabulous stellar cast. Charles Boyer, Jessica Tandy, Rachel Kempson (Lynn, Corin and Vanessa Redgrave's mother) and Mildred Natwick

[@willieluncheonette5843]

A Woman's Vengeance is a 1948 American film noir drama mystery film directed by Zoltán Korda and starring Charles Boyer, Ann Blyth, Jessica Tandy, Cedric Hardwicke, Rachel Kempson, and Mildred Natwick. The screenplay by Aldous Huxley was based on his 1922 novelette "The Gioconda Smile".

[@elizabethcsicsery-ronay1633]

Why couldn't they have told us this from the outset.

[@willieluncheonette5843]

@@elizabethcsicsery-ronay1633 It has to do with copyright issues. That is why the opening credits and film title had to be cut out.

[@elizabethcsicsery-ronay1633]

@@willieluncheonette5843That really is ridiculous. Thanks for telling me.

[@willieluncheonette5843]

@@elizabethcsicsery-ronay1633 Yes, but at least you got to see the film. The copyright is to protect the owner of the film. What would you think if someone filmed Oppenheimer in a theater and put it up on KZbin so all could watch it? That would mean no one involved in the film would ever get a decent chunk of money again since everyone could now see it for free. With some of these old films, it is not much different. They are still being shown in revival houses and make money off that.

[@Lorraine3033]

No wonder I could not find the cast anywhere. This movie is named incorrectly?

[@laurapage7294]

I love Charles Boyer. He was so talented. The movies from that era are still wonderful.

[@Allsgood4321]

I was worried I’d start hearing American accents, this was pure British. Love these down to earth English films. Thank you.

[@jimlaguardia8185]

It’s wonderful to see a movie for adults, in contrast to the trash made over the past 50 years. (2024) Brilliant!

[@coolroy4300]

Yes ,I can't understand this jumping in bed and shooting people in the head .The world has gone mad .

[@Woodman-Spare-that-tree]

No special effects required 😊

[@Laura-tp8wz]

Agree

[@sg-vp2qg]

I hate comments like this for every old movie: My preference is to watch old black and white films, but many, many good movies have been made during the last 50 years. To call them all trash is just not right.

[@cherokee1298]

​@@sg-vp2qgAgree

[@ksr7271]

Great film. Well spoken actors, that audience can understand every word, the well-written script that deserves the delivery by the actors, the psychological, and philosophical thoughts contained, and a great suspenseful story and builds up the suspense until the last 10 seconds!!! Just as an example, people that are interested in 'stoicism' will be surprised to hear one of the stoic principles told by the doctor in the last 10 minutes of the movie!.... I will surely watch it again, just for the 'doctor'. It is a BRITISH movie of not just good, but superior type!!!! Thanks.

[@DarleneHarris-s6h]

I love 💕 watching these ole black and white movies!!!!!💖

[@veradonna1763]

Charles Boyer, still a Legend!Thank you for sharing!🙏

[@mcpheejesus5945]

Very good movie; one of my favs. Charles Boyer in any movie is usually a winner. Thanks for the upload!

[@lilwinged5291]

I'm a Gen X that loves these older movies.. any Gen x people here ???

[@ShotzyDucatzi]

Gen z loving old movies. I spotted a young Jessica Tandy quickly.

[@peggyh4805]

I’m not gen z but my daughter-in-law told me I should have an old black and white t v because I always watch old movies. I’ve always loved them.

[@lilwinged5291]

I'm 52 ...so I think I have it right. I thought Gen Z is 30s .. idk .. these wippersnappers always using letters for everyone and everything..😝

[@ShotzyDucatzi]

@@lilwinged5291 I just turned 55. So yep the younger don’t know what they’re missing!

[@lilwinged5291]

@ShotzyDucatzi oh nice ..yes so true.. so do you have a spand of years you enjoy??...have you seen Saionara??... I love that movie.

[@djr6876]

Poor Charles Boyer, too ‘French’ and charming for his own good. Unwittingly charms the wrong woman with disastrous results.

[@alexandradane3672]

Such an excellent movie based on short story by the rather brilliant Aldous Huxley . A star cast all giving superb performances - a movie worthy of all superlatives ! Thank you very much Cinematic Euphoria.

[@tammycocar1]

Did you know Aldous Huxley was also a loony eugenicist, along with his brother?

[@andreaberryhill6654]

Wow... what a movie! Some of the comments here were equally entertaining.

[@Intheyr2525]

How relevant this movie tells us about life and its played over and over throughout history.

[@hanagloriaedelblum5693]

The murderess Wendi Adelson comes to mind.

[@anjalisharma461]

Charles Boyer was so handsome.

[@rozzzr2]

Boy, the doctor is a real detective in this movie, and he had Janet all figured out. Good movie!!

[@rubytuesday5412]

The Good Doc, played by Cedric Hardwicke is in *tons* of movies from that era. Sir Cedric has never been in a dud movie that I've seen. It's almost a guarantee that It's going to be great viewing, in my opinion. Oh and that goes for Mr. Boyer too.

[@joanneshires7690]

Macbeth😅

[@candacewight7707]

Finally, I found it by putting the actors' names that I recognized. A woman's vengeance.

[@PhilipWeisman-dl4ik]

This is the film A WOMAN'S VENGENCE directed by Zoltan Korda 1948 based on the story by Aldous Huxley titled THE GIOCONDA SMILE. Apparently now with a copyright lapse and a new title with no opening credits one can blithly pedal other people's work and performances without assigning authorship or creative construction. Fortunately it is an otherwise flawless reproduction of a little appreciated gem. It features Jessica Tandy in a performance that radiates the artistry she would shortly bring to the role of Blanche in STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE. Ann Blyth is fresh and dewey in a role very different from Veda in MILDRED PIERCE. Also the fine acting of Mildred Natwick, Rachel Kempson and Cedric Hardwick. Just great

[@tammiesumbi2204]

Thanks

[@michaelmagee6428]

..... blithEly peDDLE....

[@swissotto1]

Brilliant movie. I remember my mother telling me she had a crush on Charles Boyer.

[@PennyGrey-pl7no]

But he wasn't even good looking and he was a bad actor.

[@elizabethcsicsery-ronay1633]

@@PennyGrey-pl7noSorry, no, he wasn't a bad actor. I thought he was better than Humphrey Bogart, who was always himself.

[@musicalme27]

He was very good looking, and a very good actor.

[@100marymich]

@@PennyGrey-pl7no - You must have awful taste … and obviously know nothing about what “good” acting is.

[@dianezappulla1839]

Jealousy is a terrible thing. When she said at the end "because of her mouth because of her skin" it touched home for me. I was born with a terrible skin condition and I have to fight the tendency to be jealous everyday.

[@brittanyobrien6320]

❤❤❤

[@carolcasey5441]

♥️♥️🙏💜🍀😘

[@marywilliams9858]

God bless you.

[@noelledragun6107]

Tom footers click bate. The actual title is A Woman's Vengeance. Changing the title and eliminating the movie's credits amounts to deception. This movie displays a cast of English stars who, though are in the dust of history, do not deserve to be forgotten. Even the author Aldus Huxley deserves to be remembered and honored in the credits.

[@johnpalma7265]

@noelledragun6107: I always figuered Charles Boyer was English, Thanks for confirming it.

[@caligullion2160]

So why do they use the wrong title and not give the names of the cast?? They don't have permission to show it?

[@chadwedul1787]

EVEN the author?

[@remember1110]

Thank you for that revelation; these fake names of titles are befuddling.

[@marylingerfelt6537]

@@chadwedul1787 Right? Since when is Aldous Huxley an also-ran? lol

[@lisawentworth6831]

A bitter marriage and a roving eye...a recipe for disaster

[@poppykok5]

A most enjoyable old film! Charles Boyer STILL makes my heart flutter❣

[@jhlfsc]

They said "sex" in the first 10 minutes?! DEFINITLEY not an American film! Lol

[@marybedward9381]

A great film a woman scorned. ❤

[@tammycocar1]

I don't know how scorned she was. She invented their "relationship" from the beginning. They never had one in his eyes, except friends. I don't think for a second that he hurt her intentionally. She set herself up.

[@miapdx503]

Excellent film! Boyer was perfection. So many petty women in his life, he didn't have a prayer. 😏 thank you for the upload, very enjoyable. 🌹👍🏽

[@susanmeadows627]

Isn't the young wife the girl who played in Mildred Pierce as her oldest daughter? The one that was spoiled and caused problems. Mildred Pierce was played by Joan Crawford in 1945.

[@NovemberReigne]

Yes,that is her.

[@grandmafran1361]

Ann Blyth

[@katewithat]

Yes, that’s Veda! 😄

[@susanmeadows627]

Thank you everyone!❤

[@Lorraine3033]

It is so frustrating that this movie cut off the beginning credits and the end too! I can't find the cast anywhere. We kept guessing who the actors were, and still can't find the cast anywhere. Please don't do that again. Please?

[@josepinheiro6064]

Jessica Tandy like Barbara Stanwyck became more beautiful with age.

[@NovemberReigne]

Yes, she was beautiful also in " The Birds"

[@suraya1224]

I just read that C. Boyer spoke 5 languages, studied philosophy at the Sorbonne, & that when he showed up on a Bette Davis movie set w/o his toupé & corset, she tried to hv him removed, bcs she didn't recognize him. And that he committed suicide in Phoenix, AZ, at 79, 2 days after his wife died of cancer. And his son had died playing Russian Roulette! Sad.

[@sandraelder1101]

17:00 “I don’t want to do anything that’s wrong” as she dates a married man. 🙄

[@EYE_GOTCHA]

10:52 This comment was very sad, as Boyer ended his life with a deliberate O.D. of Seconal, 2 days after his wife’s death from cancer and 2 days before his 79th birthday. It was also 13 years after his son died while playing Russian Roulette, so he had no family left after Pat, his wife, died. 😢

[@fayee8986]

Thank you for sharing that information, I didn't know. What a tragedy and a sad ending just absolutely pitiful. So sad😢

[@caveman4598]

I must say I much prefer these classic old movies to anything made in recent times

[@isabellegarcia9205]

I loved this movie, thankyou for showing it.😊

[@nancycatania7763]

Loved this movie! Thanks for posting!

[@ascensionvaldes1412]

I love the wisdom of the doctor❤

[@earlwest3502]

Thank you for providing this wonderful movie what a great classic!! Nice displayed screen resolution also!!

[@matronista]

A Woman’s Vengeance 1948

[@darkdaughter5472]

loved it great script and strong character performances

[@katiebiega8070]

Love old movies Thanks for sharing 💐😊

[@HestiaBHN1]

"You'd think after 30 years a husband could expect a wife to share his tastes." Gag. What about him aligning with hers? Or how about they both agree that they have very different tastes ....and that is allowed? Or its not allowed and they separate? And so he finds a sympathetic woman and boo hoos to her. "My wife doesn't understand me !

[@aruglaempire2518]

Is your hobby policing movies? Feminism is CANCER. You must be total joy to be around.

[@julieduchek2969]

You are unfair to call the lady a feminist because of her opinion. I thought it was funny and there is truth in what she says. That’s my opinion.

[@luciezak3671]

@@aruglaempire2518as are narcissism and passive aggressiveness!

[@vickikay54]

It was a movie of its time.

[@dtschuor459]

Yeah, of all the sexist assumptions he made in this movie, that one really irked me excessively… The other stuff I assumed was normal for the time and cultural period, but your wife must learn to align her tastes to yours? Ick.

[@Daniela-Christianson]

Poor Emily. Surrounded by snakes.

[@DancingQueenie]

Magnificent! The lighting is incredible. And everything else too.

[@tammysmith2050]

I didn't that was Jessica Tandy, Thank you to those who knew the real name of the movie.. a womans Vengeance ( 1948)

[@gailgeer3101]

I recognized the voice of the woman who played the actual murderer midway through . I can't remember her name but she played the old lady in Fried Green Tomatoes as Idgie. My she is young in this movie. But always loved her as an actress. She was good even when she was young

[@JanetElson]

Jessica Tandy

[@gjmay78]

This is brilliant acting by Miss Tandy, yet I cant find anything on the film. Dates, production, anything on the other actors? I'll co Mildred Natwick . .most important+ thank you for duaring this gem.

[@vickikay54]

It was released as A Woman's Vengeance.

[@bambinoandmore46]

The deck chairs and sun loungers are stunning

[@marilynwillett804]

YES AREN'T THEY !!

[@tammyn133]

Loved it, black and white, my favorites.

[@07regia]

The scenes with Jessica Tandy and Cedric Hardwicke are wonderful, almost good enough to make you forget the idiotic pairing of Anne Blythe and Charles Boyer.

[@elizabethcsicsery-ronay1633]

Boyer should have had an older and better actress. For sure.

[@serratograffiti]

Those last 15 minutes really saved the movie.

[@othellayoung7819]

Excellent classic Enjoyed every minute of it 🎈

[@marcbahn5487]

A fine movie. Boyer, Tandy, Blyth, all excellent in this - 'A Woman's Vengeance' - 1948. One of Blyth's two greats.

[@gemmadidit4118]

Disturbing on so many levels😲. Charles Boyer is charismatic and sexy as ever even at this age. Seeing the reciprocated warmth between him and Janet in the beginning seemed absolutely right and my heart wanted him to be with her and not his vengeful insecure wife. But when he married an EMBRYO🙄 who generally looked and acted like his DAUGHTER, I was squirming in my seat😤. I wanted to fast forward thru every one of their scenes together. Charles was wonderful but it was easy to see how uncomfortable he was. Charles and the actress who played Janet and also of course the good doctor who saves the day gave fantastic performances. A flawed but riveting movie.

[@SallyWyse]

I loved this movie,and was so impressed that I tried searching,for the Cast,s names.What an intriguing story,and the actress,who played Janet,was unforgettable.I couldn't find her real life name.Great Cast,and Charles Boyer,was impressive.His was the only name,I could find.

[@clarecollins3726]

I believe Janet was played by Jessica Tandy.

[@serratograffiti]

She was the original Blanche in "A Streetcar Named Desire" on Broadway.

[@cattymajiv]

Lots of stars in this, but the butchery of the channel owner, consistently over ALL the videos, makes it impossible to know who is who. This kind of destruction is so harmful, and it doesn't even accomplish the desired evasion of copyright strikes from KZbin!

[@100marymich]

Ann Blythe played the young wife.

[@irenecronin160]

I forgot what a great actress Jessica Tandy was when she was young.

[@sharonb6377]

I didn't know that was Jessica 😮

[@laurafloura3058]

Flick is excellent! Thanks 😊

[@jenihansen7201]

Great movie. Charles Boyer was so handsome.

[@EYE_GOTCHA]

Indeed, he was handsome, but did you hear what Marlene Dietrich said about him and his toupee when they filmed “The Garden of Allah” (released in 1936)? 😬

[@cattymajiv]

@@EYE_GOTCHA Please tell us then!

[@AmandathePandaBooks]

The title is "a woman's revenge."

[@bettyfagan2722]

Really enjoyed the film thanks 😊

[@surreygirl2075]

A clever plot i knew she had kiiled the wife she was jealous

[@sahotamarie71]

Dont spoil it for others please

[@DoDayDem]

Very good enjoyed much

[@judithhopes151]

Adult dialogue written by good scriptwriters.

[@verucasalt9182]

You want adult and clever dialogue watch The caretaker.

[@davidrosler5413]

I know this movie under a different title. The storm sequence is brilliant. Riveting.

[@AV1611-t8l]

In 2018 they made a movie with the same title?😮 Are they allowed to do that

[@davidrosler5413]

@AV1611Rochester the answer is a firm and concrete "depends".

[@AV1611-t8l]

@@davidrosler5413 they got new ideas from old great movies. What is thought to be new what's once old. And what was once old was new once.

[@davidrosler5413]

@AV1611Rochester that's true for all the arts. Sometimes it's a slim line between inspiration and plagiarism. But this movies and many studios of the period had what today they do not: magnificent artistic style.

[@acastrohowell]

Very good movie 🍿

[@equatorialjourney4478]

A perfect study of 1) patriarchy /male superiority /latent misogyny 2) adultery: 3) mental cruelty of husb : charming with his words; then insulting w words and deeds, love bombing , gaslighting, lying, self pity that he is starved for intellectual compatibility blah blah blah . PASSIVE AGGRESSIVE mind games 4) female conditioning to be obedient, take all the blame in relationships, self flagellate 5) stereotyping women into “ man haters” ( first wife/nurse ) ; naive sycophantic doormats ( neighbour, young gullible new wife )

[@elizabethcsicsery-ronay1633]

@@equatorialjourney4478What about the woman who blames him for the murder when she murdered his wife? Don't be so stupidly one-sided?

[@yiquanawalkb4run26]

Very very good, thank you

[@sandraelder1101]

24:47 The old doc is supposed to be 56?! 😳 Looks 70 to me.

[@akrenwinkle]

Not to defend him, but maybe he meant dog years.

[@lisawentworth6831]

that's what 56 looked like back then!

[@sandraelder1101]

@@lisawentworth6831 Perhaps you’re right. 😁

[@detlevhabild6894]

Also known as 'A Woman's Vengeance' 1948. I like it

[@DannyWilliams-ch6xq]

Saw Ms. Tandy in 'DRIVING MISS DAISY', first. Then watched this. Time. Incredible. Amd a real mother for ya....

[@megvintage2586]

The doctor was my favorite character.

[@elisabethduinink2439]

It's a good thing the storm at the end didn't take out phone service.

[@AsgerDaglenz]

I love how Retroflix feels like a celebration of timeless cinema

[@AV1611-t8l]

Love the black and white movies ❤❤❤ Thank you for uploading these. Because I find no satisfaction in what's on TV now. Even if there's a million stations. In the theater is even worse. I was born in the wrong generation. Watching from New York August 6th 2024

[@ThomasNiemann-qe5fo]

I see what you did there. You're one of those YT angels. Thank you!

[@freedomofspeech6095]

Charles Boyer was in another great classic Barefoot in the Park 1967.

[@marybranicki3354]

It was Mildred Natwick not Jessica that played Jane Fonda’s mother and Charles Boyer’s love interest in Barefoot in the Park…one of my favorite movies

[@freedomofspeech6095]

@@marybranicki3354 thanks for letting me know. I really thought that was Jessica Tandy I should have checked just to make sure. Thanks. 👍

[@ericthered760]

@@marybranicki3354 Mildred's in this movie, too, as nurse Caroline Braddock -

[@marcbahn5487]

Hardly the height of Boyer's career. Look up the 30s, 40s, 50s.

[@kathleendobens6648]

Is that jessica tandy? Dont tell me the ending!

[@jessicasager72]

Somewhere along the first part of the her line structure started reminding me of Kate Mckinnon!

[@vickikay54]

Yes, it's Jessica 😊

[@cattymajiv]

Damn this channel owner for wrecking every single movie by deleting the credits!

[@Zarina1634]

Jessica Tandy playing a villian!

[@100marymich]

I know. Truly surprising. Anne Blythe was such a pretty girl.

[@bpereztab]

She was brilliant in this role!

[@ericthered760]

Spoiler alert !!😁

[@jessaca]

I saw this. It’s called A Woman’s Vengeance

[@janisg7409]

Things are as they were. An older man with a beautiful young woman, one or the other or both are married! 😊

[@bridgetlovedfrankgeddes8352]

Thankyou xx

[@paulmaloney2383]

wow, justice was swift then, death row was just hours not years

[@wondergranny2299]

Good movie.

[@rubytuesday5412]

HELL HATH NO FURY..... This movie is a fave! I love the part where Janet (Jess Tandy) embarrasses herself and then pretends it was a joke ( I'm trying not to spoil it)

[@michellecrocker-jc1sc]

Wonderful movie

[@hazeleyes1951]

Great movie!!’

[@cyndee39]

Jessica Tandy: June 7, 1909 - September 11, 1994

[@patricematthews7565]

She was beautiful

[@lightningbug276]

Good movie!😊

[@mitziphillips9889]

“A Woman’s Vengeance “ 1947 ✅✅✅

[@cattymajiv]

What does that mean?

[@mitziphillips9889]

It’s the actual title of the movie. I recognized Jessica Tandy (The Birds, Driving Miss Daisy)and looked at her filmography.

[@mitziphillips9889]

@@cattymajiv Oh, I just realized your question wasn’t for me. Sorry for that. 😀

[@jeanettebuckman830]

Great movie one of the classics

[@ritaeichler2066]

Ending is too abrupt. Need to show if he was saved from the death in that last hour!

[@evetko]

All the key players were quite pathetic. The adulterer husband. The wife that would not give him a divorce to continue to make his life miserable. The nurse who lied in Court and went against the husband and doctor's wishes. Janet, the wife's friend, who was vicious to the end because she expected him to feel the same way she did and when she found out he remarried and met the mistress just showed how ugly jealousy can be. The 'other woman' who didn't care about the hurt she would cause. The only good salt of the earth character was the doctor.

[@vickikay54]

They played the parts they were supposed to...and obviously very successfully 😊

[@peggyhui4269]

Good movie this is what to do with love😂 who know

[@MelanieMaguire]

Great film, really enjoyed it. :)

[@elizabethtobin6894]

A woman scorned 🙂

[@deevine1818]

@@solomon-uu5xhA Woman’s Selfishness and Self-Indulgence

[@hanagloriaedelblum5693]

Bingo!

[@tammycocar1]

@@deevine1818 That's not it either. She was delusional.

[@UncleDavesKitchen]

This is a remake of REBECCA!! Only thing missing is the sail boat with the hole in the bottom.

[@vickikay54]

Not really, in Rebecca, he really did kill his wife.

[@UncleDavesKitchen]

@@vickikay54 no he didn't.

[@vickikay54]

@@UncleDavesKitchen Before replying, you need to watch the movie again. He definitely did kill her, put her body in her boat and sank it.

[@EYE_GOTCHA]

@@UncleDavesKitchen But he did, though - he shot her dead.

[@Blue_Star_flyer]

@@vickikay54 Educate yourself. Per the book published in 1938 and the 1940 movie it was suicide.

[@NoelleDragun]

No, Charles Boyer was not English. He was French. Very, very French.

[@theoryofpersonality1420]

He's an actor and not a very good one.

[@cattymajiv]

@@theoryofpersonality1420 A matter of opinion.

[@carolesmith4864]

@@theoryofpersonality1420 He was a very good actor.

[@abac4512]

Great plot and s very good movie with excellent actors. The age difference is, however, unseemly and not okay.. He's old enough to be her grandfather. Ick!

[@retha1875]

Not grandfather. He was 28 or 29 years older. Father.

[@cattymajiv]

@@retha1875 VERY close to being her grandfather!

[@marilynwillett804]

@@cattymajiv NO NOT AT 30 YRS DIFFERENCE

[@Daisnap]

I just can’t watch movies when the opening credits have been chopped out. It’s too disorienting for me!

[@seniorgal2752]

Charles Boyer, Jessica Tandy, Ann Blyth?

[@531katie]

Thank you. I wasn’t sure it was Jessica Tandy.

[@reginamay1]

Great

[@aprayerandpositivethoughts9308]

😂 1:32:55 ' think of black velvet and black fur'

[@retha1875]

Boyer was 48/49, Blyth was 20 during this movie.