Joan Bennett and James Mason star in Max Ophuls' gripping noir about a suburban momwho do anything to protect her daughter from the consequences of passion

The legendary Max Ophuls (Letter from an Unknown Woman,La Ronde) directs this stylish suburban nightmare in which a California housewife (Joan Bennett) finds herself entangled with a shadowy Irish blackmailer (James Mason) after her daughter commits a scandalous crime. Ophuls weaves a tense web of sexual and romantic transgressions, acts of passion and restraint, and sinister nuclear families with everything to hide. (USA, 1949, 82 Mins, English | Dir. Max Ophuls)