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Thirteen Women is a 1932 American pre-Code psychological thriller film, produced by David O. Selznick and directed by George Archainbaud. It stars Myrna Loy, Irene Dunne and Ricardo Cortez.
Thirteen Women: Directed by George Archainbaud. With Irene Dunne, Ricardo Cortez, Jill Esmond, Myrna Loy. A young woman plots astrological revenge on schoolgirls from her past.
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- Crime, Drama, Horror
- George Archainbaud
- 1932-09-16
Thirteen Women is a psychological thriller directed by George Archainbaud, released in 1932. The film follows a group of women who begin to experience tragic and deadly events after receiving ominous horoscopes. The instigator of these events is a former classmate seeking revenge. Starring Myrna Loy and Irene Dunne, the film explores themes of ...
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Suicide and on-screen murder aplenty.Guy who attempts to both poison and blow up a child but doesn’t get caught.Divorced women and single moms, happy to be without men– or so they say.In fact, all of the men are pretty damn stupid in this movie.“Do you remember how you always worried that the men would go too far and I worried that they wouldn’t?”The racial politics of this one are a tad egregious.There is a very distinct pleasure in watching Myrna Loy level her eyes at the camera and promise to break Irene Dunne. I won’t pretend it’s a vaguely wholesome pleasure, but it’s safe to say that Thirteen Women is anything but wholesome. Based on a novel– RKO even has the opening credits over a facsimile of a book being paged through– Thirteen Wome...
The current available version runs 59 minutes. From what I can tell, it was trimmed down before release, which creates one interesting problem: the film mentions several times that there are 12 wom...
This film is available on DVD to purchase or to stream on Amazon.A mysterious Eurasian tries to murder the 12 boarding school roommates who treated her like an outsider.
- George Archainbaud, Tommy Atkins, Doran Cox
- Irene Dunne
Female alumnae of the St. Albans Seminary sorority group receive letters from Swami Yogodachi, making alarming predictions of death and murder -- which come true.
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- Mystery & Thriller
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Ursula plots to murder 12 women with her supernatural powers. Thirteen women who were schoolmates send to a swami for their horoscopes, unaware that half-Asian Ursula is using her hypnotic powers over the swam and them to lead them or their families to their deaths.
