The Reckless Moment

Name: The Reckless Moment
Director: Max Ophüls
Released: 1949
Cast: James Mason, Joan Bennett, Roy Roberts, Geraldine Brooks, Henry O'Neill

by Max Ophüls1h211949United States

Recommended byTodd Haynes

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After discovering the dead body of her teenage daughter's lover, a housewife takes desperate measures to protect her family from scandal.

Cast and crew

Credits
- Distributor : Sony Pictures
- Production Compagny : Columbia Pictures
- Editing : Gene Havlick
- Costume Design : Jean Louis
- Set Decoration : Frank Tuttle
- Original Music : Hans J. Salter
- Scenario : Robert W. Soderberg, Mel Dinelli, Robert E. Kent, Henry Garson
- Original Work Author : Elisabeth Sanxay Holding
- Photo Director : Burnett Guffey
- Sound Recorder : Russell Malmgren
- Producer : Walter Wanger
- Director : Max Ophüls
Technical details
- Printed format : 35 mm
- Year of production : 1949
- French release date : 14 août 1951
- Category : Feature film
- Color : Black and White
- Language : English

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This film is recommended by
- Todd Haynes
This film is part of the Cinematographic movement
"L’âge d’or des studios américains "
See the other films of the movement

The Reckless Moment

The film"s page

Credits

Technical details

Other films

By the same director

La Ronde

The Earrings of Madame de…

Letter from an Unknown Woman

From the same year

Kind Hearts and Coronets

Stromboli

The Third Man

With the same cast

James Mason

A Star Is Born

North by Northwest

Lolita

Joan Bennett

Suspiria

Secret Beyond the Door

Man Hunt

Roy Roberts

Force of Evil

The Enforcer

Henry O'Neill

Living on Velvet

Shepperd Strudwick

Autumn Leaves

This film is recommended by

Todd Haynes

This film is part of the Cinematographic movement

"L’âge d’or des studios américains "