The Two Mrs. Carrolls

United States

1947

99 Min

Black and White

1.37:1

English

Currently 3.1/5 Stars.
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CAST Humphrey Bogart, Barbara Stanwyck, Alexis Smith, Nigel Bruce, Isobel Elsom, Patrick O'Moore, Ann Carter, Anita Sharp-Bolster, Barry Bernardi, Colin Campbell, Peter Godfrey, Creighton Hale, Leyland Hodgson, Charles Legneur

A painter tries to murder his second wife in the same way in which he killed his first, through slow poisoning, when he becomes attracted to neighbour Cecily Latham who threatens to end their affair unless he comes away with her. However, his wife is suspicious of her illness and realises what is happening. She manages to phone for help just before her husband attacks and tries to strangle her, and the police arrive in time to save her and arrest him. —BFI

Director

Peter Godfrey

Briton Peter Godfrey enjoyed a lengthy stage career in London and the provinces as an actor, director, producer, vaudeville comedian (in partnership with his first wife Renee Haal) and sleight-of-hand artist before packing up for Hollywood. Godfrey’s first film directorial assignment was The Lone Wolf Spy Hunt (1939), arguably the best-ever entry in Columbia’s “Lone Wolf” series. After a brief stay at RKO, Godfrey entered into a long association with Warner Bros. Most of his Warners films were fluffy vehicles for such contractees as Jack Carson, Jane Wyman, Barbara Stanwyck and Errol Flynn. His two crowning achievements at the studio were the Yuletide TV perennial Christmas in Connecticut (1945) and the marrow-chilling Gothic melodrama The Woman in White (1947). In the 1950s, Peter Godfrey turned to filmed television, directing many a half-hour anthology episode and virtually all 39 installments of Ella Raines’ TV series Janet Dean, Registered Nurse. —Hal Erickson, Rovi read more