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Wicked as They Come: Directed by Ken Hughes. With Arlene Dahl, Philip Carey, Herbert Marshall, Michael Goodliffe. A poor but beautiful woman sets her sights on rising to the top, and lets nothing stand in her way - including murder.
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- Crime, Drama, Mystery
- Ken Hughes
- 1957-02
United Kingdom. Language. English. Wicked as They Come ( Portrait in Smoke in the United States) is a 1956 British film noir directed by Ken Hughes and starring Arlene Dahl, Philip Carey and Herbert Marshall. [2] It was based on a novel 1950 novel Portrait in Smoke by Bill S. Ballinger. [3] The novel was also adapted for TV in 1950.
- novel Portrait in Smoke by Bill S. Ballinger
- Maxwell Setton
- Ken Hughes
- Ken Hughes, Sigmund Miller, Robert Westerby
Two years after Wicked as They Come, he would make his most notorious film appearance, as a French police inspector investigating a strange death in The Fly (1958). Director Ken Hughes had previously worked for Columbia on another film noir, Joe MacBeth (1955), a British-shot film that starred Paul Douglas and Ruth Roman in a resetting of ...
- Ken Hughes, Philip Shipway
- Arlene Dahl
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Jan 28, 2020 · Wicked as They Come (Portrait in Smoke in the United States) is a 1956 British film directed by Ken Hughes and starring Arlene Dahl, Philip Carey and Herbert...
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Wicked as They Come is directed by Ken Hughes who also co-writes the screenplay with Sigmund Miller and Robert Westerby. It stars Arlene Dahl, Philip Carey, Herbert Marshall, Michael Goodlife and Ralph Truman. Music is by Malcolm Arnold and cinematography by Basil Emmott.
Summaries. A poor but beautiful woman sets her sights on rising to the top, and lets nothing stand in her way - including murder. On a trip to Europe, her prize in a "fixed" beauty contest, Kathy Allne ( Arlene Dahl )meet advertising man Tim O'Bannion ( Philip Carey ), who is attracted by her beauty but repelled by her ruthlessness towards men.
