Three Bad Sisters (1956)

Name: Three Bad Sisters
Genre: Drama
Released: 1956-02-13
Duration: 76 min
Rating: 4.3
Cast: Marla English, Kathleen Hughes, Sara Shane, John Bromfield, Jess Barker

Three Bad Sisters (1956), directed by Gilbert Kay, starring Marla English and Kathleen Hughes.

02/13/1956 BR Drama 1h 16m

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What They Did To Men Was Nothing Compared To What They Did To Each Other!

Synopsis

Following the death of a wealthy man, his three daughters squabble about who should be the principal heiress.

Lester ShorrCinematography
Gilbert KayDirector
John F. SchreyerEditing
Howard W. KochProducer

About the film

Three Bad Sisters is a 1956 American film noir crime film directed by Gilbert Kay, written by Gerald Drayson Adams and starring Marla English, Kathleen Hughes, Sara Shane, John Bromfield and Jess Barker. It was released in January 1956 by United Artists.

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Plot

Valerie, Vicki and Lorna Craig are the daughters of a man worth $40 million who is killed in a Wyoming plane crash. The pilot, Jim Norton, was unharmed.

Jim is unable to fly while the crash is investigated. Valerie offers him $200,000 to seduce and abandon her sister Lorna, executor of their father's will. Lorna is engaged to George Gurney, their father's attorney. Jim finds her contemplating a leap from a high cliff into the water, dared by Valerie to do it.

Valerie threatens to frame Jim for murdering her father if he refuses to cooperate. Then Vicki makes romantic advances, trying to lure Jim away from her sister's clutches. Valerie lashes her with a whip, scarring her face. Vicki flees in a car, crashes and is killed.

Jim proposes marriage to Lorna, who is unsure whether she can trust him. Valerie attempts to murder Lorna and stage it to appear to have been an accident. When her scheme fails, Valerie is killed in a speeding car. Jim goes to the cliff and discovers that Lorna has made the leap. He dives into the water and saves her.

Cast

Marla English as Vicki Craig

Kathleen Hughes as Valerie Craig

Sara Shane as Lorna Craig

John Bromfield as Jim Norton

Jess Barker as George Gurney

Madge Kennedy as Martha Craig

Anthony George as Tony Cadiz

Marlene Felton as Nadine

Reception

In a contemporary review for The New York Times, critic A. H. Weiler wrote: "John Bromfield, who is surrounded by the titular trio of decorative but decidedly disturbed dames exposed in 'Three Bad Sisters,' is heard to remark, 'I'm tired of being blamed for what happens in this nut house.' Mr. Bromfield makes quite a point there. A viewer is likely to become just as weary after observing only part of the homicides, mayhem and stock romance exhibited in this artless little melodrama ... Despite their pulchitrude [sic] and riches, 'Three Bad Sisters' make one poor picture."

References

External links

Three Bad Sisters at IMDb

Text from Three Bad Sisters on Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Bad_Sisters

Trivia

It premiered on February 13, 1956, a Monday.
It runs 1h16 — short for a feature film.
This film's quiz has 12 questions — enough to play more than once without repeats.