Ladies in Retirement (1941)
- Directed by
- Charles Vidor
- Genre
- drama film, film noir, crime film
- Country
- United States
- Runtime
- 1h 31m
- Rating
- 6.5 of 10 from 35 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
How it feels
A woman takes a job as a housekeeper for a reclusive man in an isolated country estate. She brings her two mentally unstable sisters to live with them, which leads to dangerous tensions.
tensedarksuspensefulgothicclaustrophobicunsettlingslow-burn
What happens
Ladies in Retirement is a 1941 American film noir directed by Charles Vidor and starring Ida Lupino, Louis Hayward and Evelyn Keyes. It was produced and distributed by Columbia Pictures. Lupino and Hayward were married at the time. It is based on a play of the same title by Reginald Denham and Edward Percy, produced in London in 1939 and New York in 1940. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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