The Wicked Lady

The Wicked Lady

Infobox Film
name = The Wicked Lady
writer = Leslie Arliss
starring = Margaret Lockwood
James Mason
Patricia Roc
Griffith Jones
Michael Rennie
Felix Aylmer
director = Leslie Arliss
producer = R.J. Minney
music = Hans May
cinematography = Jack E. Cox
editing = Terence Fisher
distributor = Eagle-Lion (U.K.)
Universal (U.S.)
released = November 15 1945
runtime = 104 min.
language = English
country = UK
budget =
imdb_id = 0038250

"The Wicked Lady" was a 1945 film starring Margaret Lockwood in the title role as a nobleman's wife who turns to highway robbery for enjoyment and to repay gambling debts. James Mason played her lover, Captain Jerry Jackson, with Griffith Jones as her husband, local magistrate Sir Ralph Skelton.

The story was based upon the (disputed) events surrounding the life of Katherine Ferrers, the wife of the major landowner in Markyate on the main London - Birmingham road.

The film was made at Gainsborough Studios in London.

It was loosely remade by Michael Winner as The Wicked Lady in 1983 starring Faye Dunaway and Alan Bates, but failed at the box office. The remake gained some latter-day notoriety thanks to the fact that it includes several nude scenes by actress Marina Sirtis who later became famous as one of the stars of .

External links

*imdb title|id=0038250|title=The Wicked Lady (1945)
*imdb title|id=0086582|title=The Wicked Lady (1983)

* [http://www.hertfordshire-genealogy.co.uk/data/answers/answers-2001/ans-0021-wickedlady.htm Discussion about the likely identity of the Wicked Lady]
* [http://www.silversirens.co.uk/ml/wickedlady.php "The Wicked Lady (1945)" at Silver Sirens]


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