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The Two Mrs. Carrolls (1947)

The Two Mrs. Carrolls poster
Directed by
Peter Godfrey
Genre
drama film, film noir, crime film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 39m
Rated
NR
Rating
6.4 of 10 from 75 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

An artist married to a woman with a weak heart paints her and then secretly poisons her. He later marries another woman and begins to repeat his pattern.

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What happens

The Two Mrs. Carrolls is a 1947 American mystery film noir directed by Peter Godfrey and starring Humphrey Bogart, Barbara Stanwyck, and Alexis Smith. It was produced by Mark Hellinger from a screenplay by Thomas Job, based on the 1935 play of the same name by Martin Vale (a pseudonym of Marguerite Vale Veiller). (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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