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The Other Woman

  • 1954
  • Approved
  • 1h 21m
IMDb RATING
6.4/10
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Hugo Haas and Cleo Moore in The Other Woman (1954)
Film NoirCrimeDrama

Feeling humiliated and angry after failing a line reading, an aspiring actress plots to ruin the life and career of the film's director.Feeling humiliated and angry after failing a line reading, an aspiring actress plots to ruin the life and career of the film's director.Feeling humiliated and angry after failing a line reading, an aspiring actress plots to ruin the life and career of the film's director.

  • Director
    • Hugo Haas
  • Writer
    • Hugo Haas
  • Stars
    • Hugo Haas
    • Cleo Moore
    • Lance Fuller
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  • IMDb RATING
    6.4/10
    310
    YOUR RATING
    • Director
      • Hugo Haas
    • Writer
      • Hugo Haas
    • Stars
      • Hugo Haas
      • Cleo Moore
      • Lance Fuller
    • 12User reviews
    • 4Critic reviews
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    Hugo Haas
    Hugo Haas
    • Walter Darman
    Cleo Moore
    Cleo Moore
    • Sherry Steward
    Lance Fuller
    Lance Fuller
    • Ronnie
    Lucille Barkley
    Lucille Barkley
    • Mrs. Lucille Darman
    John Qualen
    John Qualen
    • Papasha
    Jack Macy
    • Charles Lester
    Jan Arvan
    Jan Arvan
    • Police Inspector Collins
    Carol Kelly
    • Marion
    • (as Karolee Kelly)
    Mark Lowell
    • Bob, 2nd Assistant Director
    Jan Englund
    • Replacement Actress
    Steve Mitchell
    • 1st Assistant Director
    Arthur Marshall
    • Film Cutter
    Sue Casey
    • Script Girl
    Melinda Markey
    • Actress
    Sharon Dexter
    • Party Guest
    Ivan Haas
    • Newspaper Vendor
    James Conaty
    • Party Guest
    • (uncredited)
    Joe Garcio
    Joe Garcio
    • Joe
    • (uncredited)
    • Director
      • Hugo Haas
    • Writer
      • Hugo Haas
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    8planktonrules

    Sherry is a very odd and troubled young lady....and vicious through and through!

    Sherry Steward (Cleo Moore) is an aspiring actress and finally got a break...a very tiny part in a picture. However, she blows her few lines repeatedly and you cannot blame the director* for replacing her...especially after she loudly starts badmouthing him on the set! Despite this, she blames him for her problems. In other words, instead of learning from the incident or accepting any responsibility, she externalizes all her problems...and vows revenge. Clearly Sherry is a....well, IMDb won't let me use that word! But she sure is!

    Sherry then comes up with a crazy scheme to discredit and ruin the director...talk about an overreaction! First, she manages to get the director to her apartment where she drugs him. Second, when he awakens she said that he's been intimate with her and was going to blackmail him. And, since he's a married man AND his father-in-law owns the company making his film, he's in a real bind! What's next? Well, she ends up putting this innocent man through hell, that's for sure!!

    This is a very intriguing film. It has many film noir elements, though isn't exactly a noir picture. The plot is clearly very unique (though elements are a bit like the film "The Suspect", 1944) and Cleo Moore is simply terrific as an incredibly evil and vicious woman. And, Hugo Haas sure outdid himself, as he not only directed and wrote the film but actually stars in the film as the beleaguered director! All in all, very dark, exciting and original...and a film that should not be missed.
    7ilprofessore-1

    An underestimated director at his best

    Hugo Haas, born in Czechoslovakia but driven out of his country by Hitler, immigrated to the United States. He is a curious figure in the history of independent American film. Rather like his contemporary Sam Fuller, he produced, wrote, and directed any number of low-budget films, often released under the banner of a major studio, but apparently with little studio interference. Unlike other auteurs, he was completely in charge of the product; in Hass' case, the standard "B" picture thriller on the lower half of the double feature. Haas usually played the male role in his films: that of a bewildered middle-aged and slightly overweight European, the unwilling victim of a sleek sexy but thoroughly cold-blooded American woman, living by her wits, out to get some poor sucker's money in any way possible. Cleo Moore or Beverly Michaels usually played the archetypical blonde; neither by Hollywood standards conventional beauties, more like George Grocz caricatures of femme fatales. There is no doubt that Haas was a serious filmmaker, very ambitious despite his limited budgets; one, however, that neither the newspaper critics in the United States nor, more surprisingly, the Cahier du Cinema gang chose to embrace. This film is probably his best, because it offers in addition to a conventional blackmail plot a backstage look at the real Poverty Row Hollywood with its thrown together sets, offices, cutting-rooms and out of work actors. In the story Hass is an émigré director, married to the daughter of the head of a big studio, played here perfectly by Jack Macy, who for once actually looks and sounds like a typical mogul of the time. No Walter Pidgeon he. There are some unusual exchanges between Haas and Macy about what makes for a commercial film. The dialogue comes from the heart. Haas's. Well worth watching.
    6petersjoelen

    another bad girl

    Hugo Haas made films that were quite different from what was normally made in Hollywood, the women were often uncompromisingly mean or at least unpleasant and there was usually no happy ending.

    I must admit that i often like that in his films , ik makes the female characters much more realistic .

    This film is not much different, Cleo Moore plays her nasty role very well, maybe with some overacting but still good, Hugo Haas once again plays himself in his own film, the man is far from being a top actor but it is enough.

    It is a shame that these films have always been stuck in the B segment, because there was potential in this story.
    6st-shot

    Hugo's cinema of Cherchez la Femme.

    Even when he doesn't fall for the dame auteur Hugo Haas manages to get undone by the duplicitous species. In The Other Woman, Haas introduces Cleo Moore who would become in-house fatale to his pathetic doormat characters for half a dozen pictures with similar outcomes.

    Director Walter Darman (Haas) is pressed for a minor replacement for his picture and chooses an extra (Moore) who quickly flubs her chance with a couple of lines. Humiliated she swears vengeance and concocts a story that would destroy his marriage and career. He overreacts and things quickly spiral out of control.

    Hell's fury and then some, scorned Cleo pulls out all the stops to even the score with Darman whose drinking and thinking play co-culprit to banshee Moore's plotting. What she wasn't expecting is Darman's over reaction.

    Moore is an unrepentant creep, hard to sympathize with beyond her cringeworthy screen test. Haas is his usual slow on the uptake self before finding himself mired in murder. The crime itself and a Columbo like Jan Arvan bring a touch of suspense to the picture but overall it is a more frustrating than tragic B in which the two myopic leads could settle matters by each being given a good shaking and told to grow up.
    9clanciai

    A blonde bombshell ruining a director's life for nothing

    Hugo Haas' films are never pleasant, there is an uncomfortable uneasiness dominating all his films, but they are always very well written and therefore of lasting interest. This is one of his most unpleasant films giving an inside view of the backstage of cinema making, exposing intrigues and base money interests in a cinema director's worst nightmare, being subject to blackmail of such an extremely vicious kind that he can't get out of it except by responding in the same way. It's all about a movie extra who gets a chance of a stand in and fails miserably by showing herself a bad actress, which she takes too personally and decides to take a gruesome revenge on the director, the over-reaction of a wannabe who can't realise her own limitations - a bad loser of exorbitant proportions. She does not realise she is falling but has to bring innocents with her down in the fall at any price. This is a shocker but extremely well written, and although you will be horrified you will be fascinated at the same time and be stuck like the director to the very end.

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    • Release date
      • December 2, 1954 (United States)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • Turmoil
    • Filming locations
      • Kling Studios, Los Angeles, California, USA(Studio)
    • Production company
      • Hugo Haas Productions
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    • Runtime
      • 1h 21m(81 min)
    • Color
      • Black and White

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