The Second Woman (1950) | Full Movie | Robert Young | Betsy Drake | John Sutton | Florence Bates
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- Опубликовано: 21 сен 2024
- Watch The Second Woman (1950) Full Movie on The Film Detective. James V. Kern went on to direct some of the top television shows of the 1950s and ‘60s, but not before directing this taught suspense tale. In the tradition of Hitchcock classics like Spellbound and Rebecca, this movie centers around a woman (Betsy Drake) who finds herself involved with a mysterious man (Robert Young) who may or may not be in grave danger. Filmed in Carmel-by-the-Sea and Monterey CA, with cinematography by twotime Oscar winner Hal Mohr (The Phantom of the Opera, A Midsummer Night’s Dream), this is a lush piece of forgotten cinema begging to be rediscovered...
Director: James V. Kern
Writers: Mort Briskin, Robert Smith
Starring: Robert Young, Betsy Drake, John Sutton, Florence Bates, Morris Carnovsky
When comparing today's movies with those of yesteryear, there is ONE distinct difference: A prerequisite in "B & W Days" was --- having the ability and talent to --- make acting a craft! Alas, today very few are worthy of an award from any academy, or any degree of merit or applause from their public.
What a wonderful film noir! I never heard of this film until I accidentally stumbled upon it here. This is the best film I've seen in a long time. Yes, thank you so much for posting.
I stumbled upon it, as well. It is a hidden gem. And Florence Bates is one of my favorite character actresses. She had an amazing life: mathematics degree, then the first woman lawyer in Texas, traveled extensively to buy for the antiques shop she and her sister inherited from her parents and, last but not least, her film career.
Came on my feed as well! Good movie 👍🇺🇸
One of my favorite Noir films, I won’t spoil the ending for anyone but I’ll just say that if you, like me, are a younger person or are used to watching modern films with similar plots, you will probably be surprised and kept on the edge of your seat by this one, like I was on my first viewing. It’s a great film and I would totally recommend to any fans of Film Noir :)
Thank you for this one! I have watched a LOT of old movies, but this one had escaped me until now. I remember sitting with my dad and watching them as a young girl, too, but he was a John Wayne, Edward G. Robinson, George Raft kind of man. If you're reading the comments before you watch the movie - DON'T MISS THIS FILM!
I got my love of film from my father, as well. I'd wait up for him and we'd watch the late show. He would tell me a bit about each actor. If you've never seen Woman in a Dressing Gown (hard to find, a British film (1957) with Yvonne Mitchell, Anthony Quayle, Silvia Syms, I think you will like it based on your comment.
@@annabellaemm260 ... This one, at first glance, will seem as an odd suggestion to both of you - Ice-Cold in Alex, 1958. ... On paper, it is a war film (and my all-time favorite war film!), but only on paper. There are truly only 4 characters in it - John Mills, Sylvia Syms, Anthony Quayle, and Harry Andrews. ... It is a wonderful, 'cozy under the bed covers', 5-day solitary trek through the Sahara desert in an ambulance-truck, and an endearing journey of growth in friendships - with the ambulance-truck, as the fifth key player, acting as a cozy and safe raft floating on a shoppy sea of sand and desolation.
@@josenighthawk Your suggestion will be taken up. I am intrigued. Thank you, Jose.
Robert Young is such a marvelous actor, and he looks just like my Father. This is a great roster of character actors...intriguing story.
Old movies are the best! A very engrossing film.
It just began, and it sounds exactly like "Rebecca."
Yes, and Florence Bates was in both.
Rebecca : poet Daphne DrMeuro?
De Neuro ..
De meuro.sorry phone replace my spelling
I read her book if it is the same story
Wow! Excellent movie! It keeps you guessing...is he really cray cray?? Surprise ending. Beautiful scenery.
Such a good movie!! I love Robert Young
Me too! I never missed an episode of Father Knows Best when I was a child.
Betsy Drake reminds me of Julie Andrews. There's something very bright and charming about her, and her voice is quite attractive.
She was the third wife of Cary Grant.
Wow!!! What a brilliant film! Really well directed and scripted. Great cast. Love it!
I saw this film years ago & forgot what a great murder mystery it was. This might be Robert Young's best movie role, as the paranoid suitor. THANKS 4 the upload😊👍
But the Father-in-law was really the paranoid one!
don't read these comments before you watch it.
Thank you for an outstanding picture. You are right to note the influence of of Hitchcock's Spellbound and Rebecca in it, but in no way is it a copycat. It deserves a greater reputation than it has.
For those who are interested, the filming location is Pebble Beach, CA, about 100 miles south of San Francisco on the Monterey Peninsula adjacent to Pacific Grove, Monterey, Carmel and Big Sur. "12 Mile Drive" is actually called "The 17-Mile Drive". Other movies filmed or partially filmed in Pebble Beach include "Play Misty for Me" (Clint Eastwood) and "My Favorite Brunette" (Bob Hope).
Excellent, thank you. Yes, these pine trees are characteristic of that area. And Clint Eastwood has family in Carmel.
The beginning reminds me of "Rebecca"!!
A poor man's "Rebecca."
I watched Betsy Drake years ago in Marty but never saw her in anything else! I'm going to watch this! Good to see Robert" Marcus Welby" Young again!
Marty was such a great movie!
@@651LYS Yes it is!!
That was Betsy Blair in Marty....not Betsy Drake.....same first names, different actresses
@@francesfarmer736 That's right! This is the lady that was married to Carey Grant! Thanks for the correction!
Cindy Christian It was Betsy Blair in Marty not Betsy Drake
What a good movie! Great suspense! The ending surprised me completely.
Thank you for posting it! (from Rio de Janeiro - Brazil.)
Enjoyed! Thanks!
On behalf of us Irish, we are born with the gift of the blarney, gift of the gaff, we never kiss the blarney stone, no need.
Wow! This is a great movie!!! On the edge of my seat the whole time!
An excellent most enjoyable film. 💥 Thank you!
Very good movie, nice twist ending. Thanks for sharing.
I am Heathcliff sounds like they are spaced out on drugs! None of that comment makes any sense!
@@elizabethdaniels6421 It does, but it doesn't matter. S/he didn't like the film. As some others noted, this film took scraps from several other films, and made a very nice patchwork quilt. "Jumping the shark" is an expression that grew out of the show Happy Days, because The Fonz did jump over a shark.
Intentionally or not, a fine take on Hitchcock's Rebecca - and very dreamlike.
... Plus, the most beautiful beach house, ever! ... Painful they burned it down.
Really good movie 🎥! Very entertaining and enjoyable movie 🎥! Loved it!❤
Great movie....A must see....
Betsy Drake. She was married to Cary Grant for a good while, wasn't she ? And Robert Young, an under appreciated fine journeyman actor. They really had a plethora of them in those days and earlier, one good picture after another. So much antipathy written about the old "studio system" but nothing now compares to the quality those old "despots" produced out of it and I'm grateful.
I didn’t know they had teabags in 1950! Wow! I’m pretty sure we didn’t get them in the UK until late 1960s
Thanks for posting . Excellent film. Two thumbs up .
Very good film thank you.
I sure miss, "old hollywood."
I enjoyed watching this movie, thanks for sharing
extremely appreciated the background info. 🐢
it's impossible to get Father Knows Best out of my mind. Robert Young was my TV-substitute for the dad who was not around. But otherwise I'm sure he's versatile and adept; it's a great film with all the Kern touches. Complete with the snatches of Brahms' Fourth? How these old movies bring back the escape tactics of fifty years ago! Who else used to sneak off to the film nook on the lower East Side, East 7th street or so, a few doors down from the fantastic Indian Restaurant in NYC to watch Cukor movies ???
Very enjoyable! Thanks so much.
A first-rate humdinger of a movie.
love this movie, thank you for sharing.
This movie is one of the great ones.
Great movie🎬👍🏻
It is a good movie, I enjoy watching it every time Tamur
Love it!
Pretty decent old movie. I like Robert Young! Nice twist in the end, I wasn't expecting that. If you want to be surprised I wouldn't read the comments here until you've watched the film.
This was definitely a good movie with a twist.
The opening brings to mind the opening of Hitchcock’s Rebecca and Manderley in ruins……The actress who,plays the aunt is the same one who played Mrs van Hopper in Rebecca.
Very good picture. Thanks for sharing it.
Excelente. Una epoca de oro del cine.
There are good films in every era.
Nice movie! Kept me captivated.
I'm at around one hour " in",
now....have heard bits of :
Piano concerto no.1,
Sugar Plum Fairy,
A symphony (6?),
Romeo & Juliet,
Cappricio Italien,
and Francesca da Rimini...
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Loved that ending scene.
Great movie!!!!
I kept waiting for the old lady to say, "Well, still waters run deep!"
Cliches ruin good dialogue--only second rate writers use them.
@@brucknerian9664 You mean like Daphne du Maurier?
I love Tchaikovsky's music,
but in this context, sadly it
is a little distracting,
because I keep listening
to it, and thinking,
" Ah yes, that's ...(XYZ)....."
then an excerpt from
another piece, " Ah, that's
....(abc)....
I think I heard a
bit of the "Sugar Plum Fairy"
at one point....
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Could have been "excellent", if it wasn't such a partly hidden commercial for British American Tobacco. Now it's only "very good"
Worth watching! 👀 Good movie
well that was a treasure of a movie
Bravo 👏
Please don't read the comments before you watch this. This is of the best, better to be surprised. Who done it to the end, so just watch it.
Storyline is a little like Rebecca. Even had the aunt who was Joan Fontaine's employer.
A 'little' ? It's a complete pastiche ! Stealing all the best bits from other authors and directors and musicians, sure-fire hit !
The aunt in this was the writer Irene Dunn cajoled into reading her daughter's manuscript in "I Remember Mama". She played these well-off older ladies quite convincingly.
Reminded me a little bit of "Laura"
Its all about Betsy Drake ⭐️
I wish Ms Blake had made more movies.
She came from a privileged background, her Father built the famous Drake hotel in Chicago. She was married to Cary Grant for 13yr.
Survived the Andrea Doria shipwreck.
After her film career she got her psychology Masters degree from Harvard & became a childrens therapist.
She never married again and died at 92 in 2015. My favorite movie of hers is 'Every Girl Should be Married' with Grant. Yes, it's silly and dated but she is adorable in it, and Grant is...well Cary Grant!
Wonderful film I guessed the plot and got it right
thank you very much
Florence Bates played in Rebecca from Alfred Hitchcock.
There are gaps in this nice movie. Especially as to things that "shatter."
Really appreciate …………… thank you 👌
Good movie!
It's a shame that the horse and dog were so horribly killed, great movie though. I had 2 suspects but not Ben. Cheers Rosemary Perth Western Australia (71 yrs)
What a great plot twist ♥️
The American Tobacco Company must have paid the studio plenty for the constant depiction of smoking in this movie. I realize that smoking was more prevalent in this era (one reason for this being the romanticization of smoking in movies), but the people in this movie seemed to be unable to breathe anything but tobacco smoke
I didn't even notice. In movies and TV there was always smoking and drinking, so it was perfectly normal to see it here. I'm thinking of Bette Davis, in every one of her old films, but especially "Now, Voyager;" the cigarettes were very much part of that romance. And that is another thing that has changed in my lifetime (in addition to drunk driving laws).
Very enjoyable
James V. Kern was the director of I Love Lucy
Old lady was in Rebecca ten yrs before being nasty to Joan Fontaine character
I might be wrong,, but so far it seems like a take on a radio show he did. He played a fire investigator and was actually the one starting the fires. I might still watch it because I like mysteries. But I like him best in Marcus Welby.
What a Word Before..."A second Woman"
Todays word.."Mistres"..
Thanks for posting
"Second woman" does not refer to a mistress... if you watched the movie you would see this. It is in reference to the second woman in the main character's life...after Robert Young's character's (Jeff's) bride (first woman) died, the next woman, the one in the movie, is the second woman in Jeff's life.
@@georgettebirmelin1210 I think they meant that most people nowadays when they see the title would assume it’s about an affair. I actually made the same assumption myself when I first discovered this movie about a year ago, and was pleasantly surprised it went in another direction.
Wunderbar Film
It had me wondering to the end, but plenty of bread crumbs for you to make the connections at the end.
Awesome movie.
Why does the doctor need to ask for her permission to talk to him?? 😆
thanks
13/10
I clicked on this movie only because I knew Vicki Raaf was in it!
She's quite a dish. If I had a secretary like her, I'd surely try to take her along to someplace out of town, pretending it's a " business" trip!
Meeting at the hill house should have been sorted out sorrily for it meant not to have been bitter for both
Is this movie for the people who DIDN’T see Rebecca?
Of course a horse can break a leg in its own stall. It is dependent upon the condition of the stalland what was left in the stall. ie. rope that can get tangled in the legs. I have seen a horse panic when its legs are tangled up in rope.
Yes but it's very rare for a horse to break a leg that way (as they said in this movie) Also the dog and the rose bush dying from arsenic and his house burning down all in the same week is also very RARE So I wouldn't get any ideas if I were you ( especially about the horse !) Just saying 🤒
I new of a lady at our stable who came one day and found her horse with its rear leg broke
But feuriger, The rope was still there, so you knew.
Fall River. Home of Lizzie Borden. 😆
Too bad the entire movie was filmed in the dark
15 min in and I thought Jane Eyre
You mean "Rebecca."
@@DelvingEye dumaurier was influenced by bronte's Jane eyre
Father Knows Best. 👀👍
Greek subtitles why not?😢
fotini, I never saw Greek subtitles. You know you can go into Settings and change the language.
Great movie; but Tchaikovsky's 6th at the end is such a gross narcissistic wallowing in self-pity that it's enough to drive a person to suicide. Lucky the director only put in a few scant notes to spare the audience the torment.
Watching Robert young is like watching white paint dry….
It's ''taut'' suspense tale.
Color me Right
TERRIFIC!!!
But what happened to the man that actually killed his wife that left us hanging up in the air that didn't end well!
His fate wasn't important to this story. We can assume he drove drunk one night and killed himself. What would you expect to happen here? If Jeff had gone to the police or DA a year after the accident, how likely would it be that the "killer" would be convicted. And with zero evidence? The laws have changed during my lifetime; up until about 50 years ago, the law tended to be lenient with drunk drivers. A drunk driver could get away with killing, because it was an accident. The driver didn't mean to kill anyone. And Jeff suffered in silence to protect Ben (Vivian's father), but also he didn't want to destroy her reputation by revealing she was a tramp.
Em inglês !não , não !Tchau. Tchau, ,
Нет перевода
His trousers should be a darker color
Everyone's should be.
Utterly preposterous, but then that's the basis of so many films. BTW this is not a Film Noir; it's a thriller. In this case, worthy of Douglas Sirk, though a bit more obvious. Of course that's IMHO.
I’ll finish it but they jumped the shark a few times before the epic jump at 16:57. Seriously? Mrs Von Hopper...? Lol. Same lines? Badly executedJane Eyre references, too. “References” is being extremely kind. Can’t look away at this point.
How on earth was this ever allowed, it's quite laughable. I haven't cringed so much in years !
lot of misdirections. So so