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The Reckless Moment is a 1949 American film noir melodrama directed by Max Ophüls, produced by Walter Wanger, and released by Columbia Pictures with Burnett Guffey as cinematographer. It starred James Mason and Joan Bennett. The film is based on The Blank Wall (1947), a novel written by Elisabeth Sanxay Holding.
The Reckless Moment: Directed by Max Ophüls. With James Mason, Joan Bennett, Geraldine Brooks, Henry O'Neill. After discovering the dead body of her teenage daughter's lover, a housewife takes desperate measures to protect her family from scandal.
While fighting with girlfriend Bea Harper (Geraldine Brooks), Ted Darby (Shepperd Strudwick) takes a spill that leads to his death. Desperate to keep her...
- Mystery & Thriller, Drama
After discovering the dead body of her teenage daughter's lover, a housewife takes desperate measures to protect her family from scandal. In the charming community of Balboa 50 miles from Los Angeles, middle-class housewife Lucia Harper travels to Los Angeles to meet scoundrel, Ted Darby.
The Reckless Moment is a 1949 American film noir melodrama directed by Max Ophüls, produced by Walter Wanger, with Burnett Guffey as cinematographer. It starred Joan Bennett and James Mason, The film is based on The Blank Wall (1947), a novel written by Elisabeth Sanxay Holding.
Reckless Moment, The -- (Movie Clip) She's Only A Child After a prologue and drive into Los Angeles, suburban mom Lucia (Joan Bennett) meets smooth bachelor Ted (Shepperd Strudwick), soon revealed as a creep, opening Max Ophuls' The Reckless Moment, 1949.
Director Max Ophuls brings his mastery of “women’s pictures” to the film noir style with The Reckless Moment in which Joan Bennett plays Lucia Harper, a devoted mother whose daughter Bea (Geraldine Brooks) accidentally kills her older, shady boyfriend Darby (Shepperd Strudwick). To protect Bea, Lucia orchestrates what she thinks is a ...
