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The Woman in Question (released in the USA as Five Angles on Murder) is a 1950 British murder mystery film directed by Anthony Asquith and starring Jean Kent, Dirk Bogarde and John McCallum. After a woman is murdered, the complex and very different ways in which she is seen by several people are examined.
Five Angles on Murder: Directed by Anthony Asquith. With Jean Kent, Dirk Bogarde, John McCallum, Susan Shaw. A woman is murdered, but she is seen in different ways by different people.
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- Crime, Drama, Mystery
- Anthony Asquith
- 1951-04-13
The Woman in Question is a murder mystery with a clever gimmick. It opens with the discovery of the murder of fortune teller Madame Astra (Jean Kent) in her flat in an English seaside town.
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- Anthony Asquith
Agnes "Astra" Huston, a fortune teller at a run-down fair, is found strangled in her bedroom. As the police question five suspects, their interactions with her are shown in flashbacks from their point of view.
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- Anthony Asquith
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Fortune teller Agnes Huston (Jean Kent), a.k.a. Madame Astra, has been murdered—but that’s about all anyone can agree on as five different perspectives on the dead woman’s personality come to light during the course of a labyrinthine police investigation.
Jul 24, 2015 · The Woman in Question is a severely underrated, fun-to-watch film. As a crime drama, its mood isn’t very dark or suspenseful. There are some fantastically angry confrontations between Agnes and other characters in the flashback scenes, but there are a few scenes of amusement and laughs as well.
