After prosecuting a doctor for mercy killing, a district-attorney hires the same doctor to care for his mentally ill wife.After prosecuting a doctor for mercy killing, a district-attorney hires the same doctor to care for his mentally ill wife.After prosecuting a doctor for mercy killing, a district-attorney hires the same doctor to care for his mentally ill wife.
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- TriviaThis project was announced by Hedda Hopper in her column in the Los Angeles Times of August 20, 1957. It was originally to star Inger Stevens and be directed by Peter Glenville, but both dropped out; then it was announced as a vehicle for Ingrid Bergman. The producer was to be Sol C. Siegel.
- GoofsWhile running across Ireland, Susan Hayward's high heeled shoes suddenly become sensible flat soled brogans while she's climbing over the rocks.
- ConnectionsReferenced in Hollywood Mouth (2008)
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"You can't ever kill without destroying something inside yourself!"
Stripped of her medical credentials after being convicted of manslaughter for the mercy killing of her ailing married lover, Canadian doctor in London serves 18 months behind bars, only to be hired by the prosecutor once she's released. His child-like wife requires a companion after suffering brain damage from a car accident, but the doctor (very slowly) discovers the wife's real problem is mental illness, specifically paranoid schizophrenia. Middling adaptation of Audrey Erskine-Lindop's 1958 novel, ostensibly a good vehicle for star Susan Hayward, though she's rather colorless as the physician who uncovers a house full of secrets. Moderately engrossing melodrama, handsomely produced on-location in London and Ireland, but saddled with a far-fetched explanation at the finish line. ** from ****
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- Das Geheimnis der grünen Droge
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- Runtime1 hour 40 minutes
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