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Woman of Straw is a 1964 crime thriller directed by Basil Dearden and starring Gina Lollobrigida and Sean Connery. It was written by Robert Muller and Stanley Mann, adapted from the 1954 novel La Femme de paille by Catherine Arley.
Woman of Straw: Directed by Basil Dearden. With Gina Lollobrigida, Sean Connery, Ralph Richardson, Alexander Knox. Tyrannical, but ailing, tycoon Charles Richmond becomes very fond of his attractive Italian nurse, Maria.
Woman of Straw. Charles Richmond (Ralph Richardson), a ruthless millionaire on his deathbed, has decided to leave his entire fortune to charity. His nephew Tony (Sean Connery), who wants to...
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Dec 17, 2021 · Woman of Straw is based on the 1956 French novel La femme de paille by Catherine Arley. According to Imdb, the title denotes the phrase “man of straw” which means “a situation in which one person serves as a front for another in activities that may or may not be legal.”
Tyrannical, but ailing, tycoon Charles Richmond becomes very fond of his attractive Italian nurse, Maria. The nurse, in turn, falls in love with Charles' ne'er-do-well nephew Anthony, who plots ways to gain control of his uncle's fortune.
In Woman of Straw (1964), playing the calculating nephew of Ralph Richardson's rich old wheelchair-bound monster, he schemes with Gina Lollobrigida to murder the old boy. Connery filmed it just after the first two Bond films Dr.
Overview. Anthony Richmond schemes to get the fortune of his tyrannical, wheelchair-using tycoon uncle Charles Richmond by persuading Maria, a nurse he employs, to marry him.
“It takes a very sane person to plan something perfect,” says handsome homme fatale Tony Richmond (Sean Connery) in Basil Dearden’s Woman of Straw, a British domestic noir whose slow, deliberate pacing effectively portrays the slow, emotional manipulation at work. Richmond is the stepson of the ailing, wheelchair-bound Charles Richmond ...
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