The seemingly happy relationship between Tony and Jim is threatened when his manipulative, seductive former fiancee visits.
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Irene Dunne
Tony Dunlap
Constance Cummings
Francesca Harper
Ralph Bellamy
Jim Dunlap
Kay Johnson
Bee McCrae
Charles Starrett
Jud McCrae
Sidney Blackmer
Mort Holmes
Vivian Tobin
Rita
Louis Mason
Slim
Herbert Evans
Martin
Adda Gleason
Martha
Shauna O'Brien plays the title character in The Seductress. Alexis Baxter (O'Brien) is a literal femme fatal, marrying wealthy men and then killing them in order to assume their fortune. Kay Sanders (Gabriella Hall) has a rather large interest in the case. Kay's boyfriend, Paul (Jonathan Smith), receives some inflammatory photographs and warns his neighbor Roman (Gary Angelino) that Roman may be in trouble. Roman takes action, and discovers that Alexis and Kay are actually sisters who are hiding a deep dark secret.
A young American art student must decide whether to stay in Paris with her boyfriend or go back to the U.S. when her wealthy father arrives to bring her back.
Originally edited in two versions. Version I, 70 minutes; version II, 90 minutes. (The only known existing version is not Markopoulos’s edit and contains additional titles, music and voice-over added later than 1961. 65 minutes.) Filmed in Mytilene and Annavysos, Greece, 1958. Existing copy on video, J. and M. Paris Films, Athens.
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Slaking a thirst for dangerous games, Kathryn challenges her stepbrother, Sebastian, to deflower their headmaster's daughter before the summer ends. If he succeeds, the prize is the chance to bed Kathryn. But if he loses, Kathryn will claim his most prized possession.
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A spark on a Friday can lead to a sizzling weekend fling, but what happens when you get to the inevitable Monday?
Captives of the very relationships that define and sustain them, nine women resiliently meet the travails and disappointments of life.
A fiery Spanish woman is about to marry a kind British man when she meets a Brazilian actor who ignites in her a flame of lust she can't ignore.
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A New York suburban couple's marriage goes dangerously awry when the wife indulges in an adulterous fling.
When librarian Taylor Harris suddenly loses her job, she decides to visit her brother in a small town in Montana. There, she gets involved in the fight to help save her brother's hotel from tycoon Joel Sheenan, who wants to renovate it.
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