..SHE’LL LIE…KILL OR KISS HER WAY OUT OF ANYTHING!
THE FILE ON THELMA JORDON (1950)
*photo courtesy of Doctor Macro
Directed by Robert Siodmak (The Spiral Staircase 1945, The Killers 1946, Criss Cross 1949) this is a slick film-noir crime thriller with the ballsy Stanwyck as femme fatale Thelma Jordon in love with jewel thief Tony Laredo (Richard Rober) who gets her to steal from her rich aunt, and winds up shooting her, then making it look like a robbery. Wendell Corey plays gullible Cleve Marshall the assistant district attorney who manages to get Thelma an acquittal at trial. They start a passionate affair but Thelma is no good, and Tony reappears back in the picture… these things never end well…
“I’m no good for any man for any longer than a kiss!”
“Maybe I am just a dame and didn’t know it!”
Maybe I’m just a dame and thought I was a MonsterGirl…