Thirteen Women

United States

1932

73 Min

Black and White

English

Currently 3.3/5 Stars.
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SCR Tiffany Thayer, Bartlett Cormack

CAST Irene Dunne, Ricardo Cortez, Jill Esmond, Myrna Loy, Leon Ames, Mary Duncan, Kay Johnson, Florence Eldridge, C. Henry Gordon, Peg Entwistle, Harriet Hagman, Edward Pawley, Blanche Friderici, Wally Albright, Phyllis Cerf

Thirteen women who were schoolmates send to a swami for their horoscopes. Little do they realize that Ursula, a half-breed Asian, is using her hypnotic powers over the swami and them to lead them or their families to their deaths. It seems that she too went to their school, but was forced to leave by their bigotry, and is exacting revenge. Will she be stopped in time to save Laura’s son, Bobby? —IMDb

Director

George Archainbaud

George Archainbaud (7 May 1890 – 20 February 1959) was a French-born American film and television director.

In the beginning of his career he worked on stage as an actor and manager. He came to the United States in 1915, and started his film career as an assistant director to Emile Chautard at the World Film Company in Fort Lee, New Jersey. In 1917 he made his own directorial debut As Man Made Her. During the next three and a half decades he directed over one hundred films. After the beginning of the 1950s he moved to television.

While working at the RKO in the beginning of the 1930s, he showed some artistic and skillful eye with many of his films. The finest examples include Thirteen Women (1932) and The Lost Squadron (1932). Especially the latter is a memorable thriller about Hollywood stunt flyers, who risk their lives under the direction of monstrous Erich von Stroheim.

Although Archainbaud directed films of all genres, he is nowadays mainly linked with westerns… read more

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Aguaespejo

16May13

Absolutely no slack, no fat, no-nonsense fast focused filmmaking that's entertaining all the way through. You gotta love the 30s! There's even a fairly interesting racial subtext