PICTURE FILMS.
ST. JAMES THEATRE. Screening to-night and to-morrow at S —lda Lupino and Louis Hayward in “Ladies in Retirement/' the exciting story that strips emotion of all disguise .. . lays bare a woman’s soul. Truly a dramatic masterpiece. “Ladies in Retirement,” a moving, relentless story of strange desires and stirring human emotions and is one of the most unforgettable screen plays ever portrayed. The story is set in a picturesque house on the lonely fogbound marshlands close to the English coast. The house is owned by a retired actress. Ida Lupino is her companion, whose efforts to obtain a peaceful sanctuary for her two rather unbalanced sisters is the basic motive of the drama. Louis Hayward, Miss Lupino’s real-life husband, appears in “Ladies in Retirement” as an unprincipled scoundrel-—an unsympathetic role, one which will certainly win him new fame. Similarly, lovely Evelyn Keyes has an important part as the country wench with a talent for amorous mischief-making. Every member of the cast of “Ladies in Retirement” is uniformly excellent —there is no conventional hero or heroine—there is only passionate emotionsdn a strange, fascinating story that will grip you to Hie very lasi.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 64, Issue 31, 16 November 1943, Page 5
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