The Forbidden Street
For herself alone...she must answer for what she was and did!
1949 | 90m | English
Popularity: 1 (history)
| Director: | Jean Negulesco |
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| Writer: | Ring Lardner, Jr., Margery Sharp |
| Staring: |
| In Victorian London, young Adelaide is born into luxury, but marries starving artist Henry. His alcoholism and their lack of money lead to many quarrels. During one such fight, Henry slips down a flight of stairs and dies. A neighbor, Mrs. Mounsey, is the only witness, and she blackmails the young widow by threatening to tell the cops that Adelaide killed her husband. Luckily, lawyer Gilbert swoops in to help Adelaide. | |
| Release Date: | Mar 31, 1949 |
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| Director: | Jean Negulesco |
| Writer: | Ring Lardner, Jr., Margery Sharp |
| Genres: | Drama, History |
| Keywords | blackmail, victorian england, life in the slums |
| Production Companies | 20th Century Fox |
| Box Office |
Revenue: $0
Budget: $0 |
| Updates |
Updated: Aug 03, 2024 Entered: Apr 26, 2024 |
| Name | Character |
|---|---|
| Maureen O'Hara | Adelaide 'Addie' Culver |
| Dana Andrews | Henry Lambert / Gilbert Lauderdale |
| Anne Butchart | Alice Hambro |
| Sybil Thorndike | Mrs. 'The Sow' Mounsey |
| Anthony Tancred | Treff Culver |
| June Allen | Young Adelaide |
| Fay Compton | Mrs. Culver |
| Wilfrid Hyde-White | Mr. Culver |
| A.E. Matthews | Mr. Bly |
| Diane Hart | The Blazer |
| Mary Martlew | Milly Lauderdale |
| Ernest Hare | Policeman |
| Heather Latham | Young Blazer |
| Peter Hobbes | Fred Baker |
| Gwynne Whitby | Miss Bryant |
| Anthony Lamb | Young Treff |
| Susanne Gibbs | Young Alice |
| Neil North | Johnny Hambro |
| Scott Harrold | Benson |
| Herbert C. Walton | The Old 'Un |
| Name | Job |
|---|---|
| Ring Lardner, Jr. | Screenplay |
| Jean Negulesco | Director |
| Georges Périnal | Director of Photography |
| Malcolm Arnold | Original Music Composer |
| Guy Hamilton | Assistant Director |
| Margery Sharp | Novel |
| Richard Best | Editor |
| Robert L. Simpson | Editor |
| Andrej Andrejew | Art Direction |
| Georges K. Benda | Costume Design |
| R. E. Dearing | Production Assistant |
| Ronald Kinnoch | Production Manager |
| T.S. Lyndon-Haynes | Production Manager |
| Fred Fox | Production Assistant |
| Denys N. Coop | Camera Operator |
| Buster Ambler | Sound Recordist |
| Ben Hipkins | Sound Editor |
| Muir Mathieson | Music Director |
| Joan Carpenter | Key Hair Stylist |
| Connie Reeve | Key Makeup Artist |
| Name | Title |
|---|---|
| Darryl F. Zanuck | Executive Producer |
| William Perlberg | Producer |
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Popularity History
| Year | Month | Avg | Max | Min |
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| 2024 | 4 | 4 | 8 | 1 |
| 2024 | 5 | 5 | 15 | 1 |
| 2024 | 6 | 3 | 7 | 1 |
| 2024 | 7 | 4 | 10 | 1 |
| 2024 | 8 | 3 | 7 | 1 |
| 2024 | 9 | 4 | 10 | 1 |
| 2024 | 10 | 2 | 6 | 1 |
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| 2024 | 12 | 1 | 3 | 1 |
| 2025 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 1 |
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| 2025 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| 2025 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| 2025 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2025 | 8 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 2025 | 9 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| 2025 | 10 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
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Maureen O'Hara is a young girl who lives a well-to-do existence with her family until she takes a shine to her art teacher "Lambert" (Dana Andrews). Their relationship doesn't impress her family, but they press on anyway, set up on their own before, fairly soon, she rues the day. He turns out to be ... a bit of a lush. When an accident befalls him, she finds herself the subject of a pernicious blackmailing from an elderly neighbour - "Mrs. Mousey" (Dame Sybil Thorndyke) and her miserable life looks pretty set. Until, that is, another man enters her life - a man who bears a startling resemblance to her husband, and... It's quite a well paced story, this. Jean Negulesco keeps the story engaging without descending into melodrama, and Thorndyke is excellent as the avaricious old woman. The production detail is fine - the costumes and scenarios are decent enough, but the score - it really is weak, seemingly determined to slow the film down. There is some chemistry between O'Hara and Andrews that makes this just a little better than a routine costume drama and worth 90 minutes.