This Was a Woman
Harvard Film Archive, 24 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
Directed by Tim Whelan, 1948. Directed by American Tim Whelan, this tale of a toxic matriarch destroying the lives of her family—including daughter and husband—is a British take on Craig’s Wife (1936) that compellingly ventures into realms of perverse manipulation and murderous fury. Part of the series Great Expectations: British Postwar Cinema, 1945 – 1960.