Woman of Straw

Woman of Straw

Infobox Film | name = Woman of Straw


image_size = 175px
caption = original movie poster
director = Basil Dearden
producer = Michael Relph
writer = Robert Muller
Stanley Mann
starring = Gina Lollobrigida
Sean Connery
Ralph Richardson
music = Norman Percival
cinematography =Otto Heller
editing =John D. Guthridge
distributor = United Artists
released = 1964
runtime = 122 min.
country = United Kingdom
language = English
budget =
imdb_id = 0058754

Women of Straw is a 1964 British mystery thriller starring Gina Lollobrigida and Sean Connery. It was directed by Basil Dearden and written by Robert Muller and Stanley Mann, adapted from the 1964 novel by Catherine Arley.

Plot

Connery's character Anthony Richmond schemes to get the fortune of his tyrannical, wheelchair-bound tycoon uncle Charles Richmond (Richardson) by persuading Maria, a nurse he employs (Lollobrigida), to marry him. After his uncle's demise Anthony becomes a murder suspect. Lollobrigida's character is the "Woman of Straw" of the title.


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