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The woman in white [1948], Warner Brothers Pictures Incorporated presents ; a Warner Brothers-First National picture ; screen play, Stephen Morehouse Avery ; produced by Henry Blanke ; directed by Peter Godfrey

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The woman in white [1948]

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949378286

Warner Brothers Pictures Incorporated presents ; a Warner Brothers-First National picture ; screen play, Stephen Morehouse Avery ; produced by Henry Blanke ; directed by Peter Godfrey

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WB Home Entertainment Group archive collection

As painter Walter Hartright (Gig Young) walks through the wooded dark night to Limmeridge House, she arrives like a heavenly apparition: The Woman in White, the title character of Wilkie Collins<U+2019> pioneering 1859 mystery novel, well-embodied in this eerily effective, lushly atmospheric screen adaptation by lovely Eleanor Parker. She is the key figure (actually figures, playing dual roles) in a tale of murder, insanity, switched identities and dastardly plots encircling an inheritance, while Hartright and family cousin Marian (Alexis Smith) sleuth out the motivations of the estate<U+2019>s odd, sinister characters. Director Peter Godfrey (Christmas in Connecticut, The Two Mrs. Carrolls) marshals studio forces of top-tier production and costume design, a lyrical Max Steiner score and a rogues<U+2019> gallery of juicy turns by John Abbott as the hypochondriac family scion, John Emery as a scheming nobleman, Agnes Moorehead as a long-suffering wife and, supremely, Sydney Greenstreet as evil bon vivant Count Fosco, to craft a silkily stylish and hugely gripping thriller

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