Portrait in black / Madame X [dvd videorecording]

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Title:

Portrait in black / Madame X [dvd videorecording]

Author:

Turner, Lana, 1921-1995.

Edition:

Widescreen.

Publication Information:

Physical Description:

2 videodiscs (213 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.

General Note:

At head of title on container: Double feature.

Madame X based on a 1910 play by Alexandre Charles Auguste Bisson.

Portrait in black (113 min.) originally released as a motion picture in 1960. Madame X (100 min.) originally released as a motion picture in 1966.

Contents:

Portrait in black / screenplay by Ivan Goff ; directed by Michael Gordon (1960, 113 min.) -- Madame X / screenplay by Jean Holloway ; directed by David Lowell Rich. (1966, 100 min.).

Abstract:

Portrait in black: An adulterous couple conspire to kill the woman's tyrannical husband. Then an anonymous letter arrives advising them that someone knows their secret and their new life together begins unraveling.

Madame X: A woman is blackmailed by her mother-in-law into leaving her politician husband and their baby. Twenty years later, she finds herself on trial for murder where she is defended by her own son.

Reading Level:

MPAA rating: not rated.

Subject Term:

Murder -- Drama -- DVDs.

Adultery -- Drama -- DVDs.

Added Author:

Turner, Lana, 1921-1995.

Quinn, Anthony, 1915-2001.

Dee, Sandra.

Walston, Ray, 1917-2001.

Basehart, Richard, 1914-1984.

Forsythe, John, 1918-2010.