Le démon de la chair

Original title: The Strange Woman

1946
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1h 40m

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In 1820s New England beautiful but poor and manipulative Jenny Hager marries rich old man Isaiah Poster but also seduces his son and his company foreman.In 1820s New England beautiful but poor and manipulative Jenny Hager marries rich old man Isaiah Poster but also seduces his son and his company foreman.In 1820s New England beautiful but poor and manipulative Jenny Hager marries rich old man Isaiah Poster but also seduces his son and his company foreman.

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6.5/10

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Trivia
Executive producer Hunt Stromberg declared his dissatisfaction with the original opening sequence of Edgar G. Ulmer's own daughter Arianne Ulmer who played the young Jenny - she was purportedly not nasty enough - and so he and Hedy Lamarr enlisted Douglas Sirk to re-shoot the scenes using Jo Ann Marlowe who had appeared in Sirk's own Scandale à Paris (1946) earlier that year, and who had also featured as Joan Crawford's daughter Kay in Michael Curtiz' Le roman de Mildred Pierce (1945).

Goofs
Ephraim paints "Nöel" rather than the correct "Noël."

Quotes
Lena Tempest: Honey, listen, with your looks you don't have to worry. You can get the youngest and best-looking man on the pier.
Jenny Hager: I don't want the youngest. I want the richest.

Alternate versions
Le démon de la chair (1946). Restoration Produced by Jeff Joseph/SabuCat. Digital scan by Film & Video Transfer, Chatsworth, CA. Cineaste Restoration - Thad Komorowski.. Final Conforming & Cleanup by The Finishing Touch. The Strange Woman (Restored Version) copyright 2020 Jeff Joseph/SabuCat.

Connections
Featured in Edgar G. Ulmer: The Man Off-Screen (2004)

Soundtracks
What Can You Do with a Drunken Sailor?
Traditional
Early 19th Century sea chanty
[Heard in tavern]

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Featured review

7/10

Poverty Row Meets Major Stars In Tale of Incest

Hedy Lamarr and Egar G. Ulmer. OK. It really did happen, improbable as the pairing seems.

She is very convincing as the daughter of a drunk who wants to dominate men and the society that squashed her when she was a child. It seems to me that her father speaks with a Scottish burr and that she does very briefly. The story might better have been changed so that he was an immigrant whose accent would be more consistent with th4e luscious Ms. Lamarr's own.

Nevertheless, it is atmospheric and very troubling. She marries an older man and immediately starts out in pursuit of his son. She gets the son and throws him over (a bit improbably) for Gweorge Sanders, wearing mutton chop sideburns here.

It's not Ulmer'best -- that might be his "Hamlet"pdate "Strange Illusion." But it is very good and it is one of the best performances ever given by Ms. Lamarr.