| Opening credits |
| RKO Radio Pictures, Inc. presents |
| (a) Robert Sparks * Polan Banks production |
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| Dr. Mark Lucas |
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Robert Mitchum |
| Barbara Beaurevelle |
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Ava Gardner |
| Paul Beaurevelle |
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Melvyn Douglas |
| My Forbidden Past |
| Aunt Eula Beaurevelle |
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Lucile Watson |
| Corinne Lucas |
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Janis Carter |
| Clay Duchesne |
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Gordon Oliver |
| Dean Cazzley |
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Basil Ruysdael |
| Pompey |
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Clarence Muse |
| coroner |
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Walter Kingsford |
| Cousin Philippe |
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Jack Briggs |
| Luther Toplady |
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Will Wright |
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| screenplay by Marion Parsonnet adaptation by Leopold Atlas |
| from a novel by Polan Banks [1947] |
| director of photography Harry J. Wild, ASC |
| art directors Albert S. D'Agostino, Alfred Herman |
| music by Frederick Hollander musical director C. Bakaleinikoff |
| set decorations Darrell Silvera, Harley Miller |
| film editor George C. Shrader sound by Phil Brigandi, Clem Portman |
| gowns by Michael Woulfe hair stylist Larry Germain |
| executive producer Sid Rogell |
| produced by Polan Banks |
| directed by Robert Stevenson |
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| © RKO Radio Pictures, Inc., 1950 |
| 71m (bw) | MPAA # 14149 |
| Drehzeit : Oktober-November 1949 | Drehort : California |
| Kinostart : April 1951 (USA) |
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| Melodram: The events take place in the 1890s in New Orleans. Dr. Mark Lucas (Robert Mitchum) wrongly believes Barbara Beaurevel(le) (Ava Gardner) refused him and betrayed him after their previously planned elopement. Thus Mark returns from South America accompanied by Corinne (Janis Carter), a woman he married for her beauty but not for love, due to this still lingering grudge against Barbara. She feels disappointed on meeting Corinne, yet she's determined to win him back. Barbara, already having inherited a large sum from her socially of ill repute grandmother, bribes her cousin Paul (Melvyn Douglas) into seducing Corinne and thereby breaking up the marriage. Unluckily this cold-blooded plan ends up in Corinne's death by accident and Mark finds himself under strong suspicion of murder. In the end, Barbara, realizing her insidious act at the trial, empathetically confesses everything, thereby once again becoming a woman worthy of love but also losing the local gentry's consideration. [Wikipedia, 2023] || Nach dem Roman Carriage Entrance [1947] von Polan Banks * Der Film wurde bislang in Deutschland nicht aufgeführt |
