Portrait d'une aventurière

Original title: Wicked as They Come

1956
1h 34m

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Arlene Dahl in Portrait d'une aventurière (1956)

A poor but beautiful woman sets her sights on rising to the top, and lets nothing stand in her way - including murder.A poor but beautiful woman sets her sights on rising to the top, and lets nothing stand in her way - including murder.A poor but beautiful woman sets her sights on rising to the top, and lets nothing stand in her way - including murder.

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8/10

"Girls like me don't get proposals, just propositions..."

This priceless British copy of an American crime film comes to you courtesy of rising young director Ken Hughes with a tongue-in-cheek tone set from the outset by shots of fifties London accompanied by a noisy jazz score provided by Malcolm Arnold, with noirish photography by Basil Emmott.

Set in the days when travel by plane was considered the high of glamour, the presence of Sid James as Arlene Dahl's stepfather serves as a visual reminder of Miss Dahl's humble beginnings (early on she's seen wielding a broken bottle) before she rises in the world while wreaking havoc on all the men in the cast,

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In March 1957, Arlene Dahl sued Columbia in New York Supreme Court, charging that some images used to promote "Wicked as They Come" were composites of her face and another woman's body and that the resulting pictures were "obscene, degrading and offensive." In August 1957, the case was dismissed by New York Supreme Court Justice Henry Clay Greenberg.

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In the flight from USA to UK, the aircraft starts off as a BOAC Boeing 377 Stratocruiser, becomes either a Handley Page H.P.81 Hermes or Douglas DC-7C in mid-flight, then is a Stratocruiser again on landing.

Quotes
Tim O'Bannion: I see you've got a new secretary...
Stephen Collins: I thought you knew her?
Tim O'Bannion: No - not really. It takes quite a time to get to know a girl like Kathy Allen.