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Inclubabu Plot so thin, it passes unnoticed.

Merolliv I really wanted to like this movie. I feel terribly cynical trashing it, and that's why I'm giving it a middling 5. Actually, I'm giving it a 5 because there were some superb performances.

Skyler Great movie. Not sure what people expected but I found it highly entertaining.

Michael O'Keefe Head-strong Beth Austin(Joan Crawford)is no push-over; for anyone. Beth is the leader of a gang of thieves and the mistress of a cold-blooded killer Matt Jackson(David Brian). Matt is trigger happy and the jealous kind...for Beth is every inch a woman. When this lady crime boss finds out her eyesight is failing, she books an operation with maybe the only doctor to save her eyesight, Doc Ben Halleck(Dennis Morgan). Matt promises to lay low and take the bullets out of his gun while Beth is out of town for her surgery. She had no plans to accept the romantic affections of Halleck. Jackson gets very suspicious of his woman and her divorced doctor. This goes on as the FBI narrows in on Beth and her gang. Crawford is her usual hard boiled self and hated this film. She claims to have done it only to finish her contract with the Warner Bros. studio. Also in the cast: Philip Carey, Richard Webb, Ian MacDonald and Mari Aldon.

bkoganbing This Woman Is Dangerous marks Warner Brothers termination of the contracts of Joan Crawford and Dennis Morgan. It's a potboiler of a story at best made a lot better by the A list cast.Joan's a woman of some class who's hooked up with gangster brothers David Brian and Philip Carey and Carey's wife Mari Aldon. After successfully pulling off a heist at a gambling casino, Joan consults a doctor about some vision problems she's having and discovers she's going blind. A really delicate operation is needed and Dr. Dennis Morgan is the guy to do it. So Joan drops out of the gang to go east to Indiana and the hospital Morgan is affiliated with.While she's repairing her vision, Brian does something really stupid and makes the gang red hot. He kills a state trooper and then in a move I cannot understand ditches the trailer camper they were traveling in with the trooper's body. Might as well have signed a confession.But Crawford's prints are also in the trailer though the FBI knows she was in the hospital when the murder occurred. She looks like a good bet to lead the FBI to Brian and the rest reasons FBI agent Richard Webb who was also playing Captain Midnight on TV at the same time and in the same manner. So Crawford is staked out like a bird dog.This Woman Is Dangerous would never get a notice and would be several rankings lower if it weren't for Joan Crawford and the rest of the cast.

Greg Couture When I was still wet behind the ears, as they say, a preview of this film was shown at a theater in Boston, Massachusetts, whose main attraction was somewhat more suitable for a child of my tender sensibilities. I can remember being genuinely frightened by the rapid glimpses of scenes strung together to lure audiences in for the upcoming engagement of this film, and I recall also being tremendously offput, in those brief snippets from this production, by the complete lack of warm femininity of its leading character, as embodied by the iron-clad Miss Crawford.Many years later a TV broadcast compelled me to find out why those few minutes of advertising had so memorably etched themselves onto my memory. Warner Brothers' hard-bitten melodramas of that part of the adult world which I shall always be grateful were never anything I've directly experienced were not a part of my preferred cinema-going experience, though this one is a mostly very professional example of their slick manufacture. Crawford, exhibiting her masklike visage at its most grim, is one dame with whom any but the most brutal men would want to tangle and the title says it all, in my opinion. About the time I saw it on TV I met a gentleman who had been directly employed by Ms. Crawford in doing some personal publicity for her. He was outraged by Christina Crawford's then popular best-seller "Mommie Dearest" and claimed that his own impression of that ruthlessly self-made star was not at all congruent with Christina's nightmarish experience of her. I saw no point in revealing that I had never been able to warm to Joan and found the male-protest kinds of parts in which she specialized seemed exactly suited to how I might agree with all that Christina revealed in her memoir.There's a possible little blooper in this film: If I'm not mistaken Joan and Dennis Morgan are seen getting into what looks like a Cadillac in a parking garage but later in the same sequence are shown pulling into the driveway of a women's prison in a product of the Ford Motor Company's Lincoln division. Oops!

Pat-54 Joan Crawford's only reason for making "This Woman Is Dangerous," (a script that she thought was terrible) was that it would complete her contract to Warner Brothers Studios and she would then be free to go over to RKO and begin production on "Sudden Fear," (which would earn her an Academy Award nomination).