The Girl in the Red Velvet Swing (1955)

Directed by

Richard Fleischer

Genre

drama film, biographical film, crime film, romance film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 49m

Rating

6.1 of 10 from 29 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A famous architect is killed by the husband of a young model who had a relationship with him. The story follows the model and the two men as a real life scandal unfolds in early 1900s New York.

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What happens

The Girl in the Red Velvet Swing is a 1955 American crime drama film directed by Richard Fleischer from a screenplay by Walter Reisch and Charles Brackett, and starring Joan Collins, Ray Milland, and Farley Granger. It is based on the real-life scandal of model and actress Evelyn Nesbit (Collins), surrounding the June 1906 killing of her former paramour and alleged rapist, the prominent architect Stanford White (Milland), by her husband, the rail and coal heir Harry Kendall Thaw (Granger). This was one of several films directed by Fleischer which dramatized real-life murder cases, he later directed Compulsion (1959, based on the Leopold and Loeb), The Boston Strangler (1968, based on the eponymous serial killer and apprehension of Albert DeSalvo), and 10 Rillington Place (1971, based on John Christie). The film was released by 20th Century Fox on October 1, 1955. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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