The Unfaithful is a 1947 American murder mystery film noir directed by Vincent Sherman and starring Ann Sheridan , Lew Ayres and Zachary Scott . It was produced and distributed by Warner Brothers . Regarded by some as a film noir , the picture is based on the W. Somerset Maugham -penned 1927 play and William Wyler -directed 1940 film The Letter , which was reworked and turned into an original screenplay by writers David Goodis and James Gunn who shifted the setting from Malaya to the United States.
12-536: (Redirected from The Unfaithful ) [REDACTED] Look up unfaithful in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Unfaithful may refer to: Someone who is infidel Someone who acts infidelity Film and television [ edit ] Unfaithful (1918 film) , a silent short film directed by Thomas H. Ince and Charles Miller Unfaithful (1931 film) , directed by John Cromwell The Unfaithful (1947 film) ,
24-459: A 2006 song by Rihanna "Unfaithful", a 2009 song by Stornoway " Los Infieles " (English: "The Unfaithful"), a song by Aventura See also [ edit ] Faithless (disambiguation) Faithful (disambiguation) Faith (disambiguation) Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Unfaithful . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change
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48-411: A long talk with his cousin, Paula, and Chris to at least consider trying to save their marriage, rather than rushing into a divorce. The film was highly successful at the box office. According to Warner Bros records, the film cost $ 1,822,000 to produce and earned $ 1,939,000 domestically and $ 1,033,000 in foreign markets, registering a profit of $ 1,150,000. Thomas Pyror of The New York Times gave
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84-463: Is out of town. The dead man's name is Tanner and she claims not to know him and to have acted in self-defense. Art shop owner, Martin Barrow, contacts Chris's lawyer and good friend Larry Hannaford. Barrow shows Hannaford a bust of Chris Hunter's head, signed by Tanner, and attempts blackmail. It turns out Tanner had been a sculptor, and it is now evident to Hannaford that Chris has lied about never knowing
96-407: The affair and sees the bust, he confronts Chris at home. After she admits to having an affair with Tanner while Bob was away during the war, he demands a divorce. Chris is charged with murder and tried. Hannaford persuades the jury that while Chris was indeed guilty of adultery, she truly did stab Tanner in self-defense. Hannaford then convinces Bob, who has softened a bit on the idea of divorce after
108-586: The film a mixed review: "The Warner Brothers have turned out a better than average murder mystery in The Unfaithful, but they have badly over-weighted with melodramatics the things they obviously wanted to say about a pressing social problem. The new picture at the Strand stabs and jabs like a hit-and-run prizefighter at the subject of hasty divorces and the dangerous consequences to society of this ill conceived cure all for marital difficulties, but it never gets across
120-445: The link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Unfaithful&oldid=1048456725 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages The Unfaithful (1947 film) Chris Hunter stabs a man in her home one night while her husband Bob
132-438: The man she killed. After learning about the bust, Chris goes to Barrow to try to take possession of it. But, Barrow has taken the piece to Tanner's wife, who is now convinced Chris had an affair with her husband and wants Chris punished for murder. Barrow convinces her to create more anguish for Chris by relaying this information to Bob Hunter, thinking also that the wronged husband would pay to avoid scandal. When Bob learns about
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