The Woman in White

The Woman in White

CAUGHT IN THE BLACK SPELL OF TERROR!

1948 · 109 min · ★ 5.7 · Mystery, Thriller

A young painter stumbles upon an assortment of odd characters at an English estate where he has been hired to give art lessons to beautiful Laura Fairlie. Among them are Anne Catherick, a strange young woman dressed in white whom he meets in the forest and who bears a striking resemblance to Laura; cunning Count Fosco, who hopes to obtain an inheritance for nobleman Sir Percival Glyde, whom he plans to have Laura marry; Mr. Fairlie, a hypochondriac who can't stand to have anyone make the slightest noise; and eccentric Countess Fosco who has her own dark secret. The artist also finds himself drawn to Marion Halcomb, a distant relation to Laura for whom the Count also has plans.

Directed by Peter Godfrey · Written by Stephen Morehouse Avery

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Cast

Alexis Smith Marian Halcombe
Eleanor Parker Laura Fairlie / Ann Catherick
Sydney Greenstreet Count Fosco
Gig Young Walter Hartright
Agnes Moorehead Countess Fosco
John Abbott Frederick Fairlie
John Emery Sir Percival Glyde
Curt Bois Louis
Emma Dunn Mrs. Vesey
Matthew Boulton Dr. Nevin
Anita Sharp-Bolster Mrs. Todd
Clifford Brooke Jepson

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