Hellen I like the storyline of this show,it attract me so much

Cubussoli Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!

Juana what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.

Fleur Actress is magnificent and exudes a hypnotic screen presence in this affecting drama.

evanston_dad I have a soft spot for this particular story, because I played the villain in a very slapstick stage version in high school and got to have a knock-down-drag-out fight with the character of Countess Fosca (played in this film by the always welcome Agnes Moorehead). This film version is a much more serious adaptation of the Wilkie Collins novel, but it still manages to be pretty funny, and it's absolutely dripping in Gothic atmosphere. Eleanor Parker (so young) is fetching in dual roles (one of them the eponymous character), while Gig Young makes for a dashing hero. The villain that I played is much more of a supporting character in this version, while true villain honors go to Sydney Greenstreet, who delivers the goods and then some. "The Woman in White" would make a great Halloween night movie if you wanted something that gets into the ghost story spirit without being scary in any way.Grade: A

ksf-2 Worth watching JUST to see the awesome Sydney Greenstreet and the even more awesome Agnes Moorehead. Eleanor Parker was also beautiful and talented, and you may or may not recognize her as the Baroness from Sound of Music! and Gig Young, as Hartright, the narrator. told in flashback. It's pretty good. a little of everything. ghostly characters, murder, mystery, intrigue, period piece. Watch it for the big names. One of the last films Greenstreet did... he made a couple more then retired. Directed by Peter Godfrey.. he directed a couple years more, then did mostly television. Story by Wilkie Collins. He wrote TONS of things in the 1800s, and many of them were made into films or television series.

Alex da Silva The beginning of this film reminded me of "Portrait of Jennie" from the same year. Artist Gig Young (Walter) comes across a mysterious woman in white as he walks through a forest. He is to be drawing teacher to Eleanor Parker (Laura) and this woman in white looks just like her but it isn't her. This woman speaks of the past and seems to make no sense. Wow - has he come across a spirit? This beginning got me excited. Long story short - and this is a long story - is that I was let down and "Portrait of Jennie" is a way better film with a far more lasting love theme. In this effort, it's about an evil manipulator - Sydney Greenstreet (Fosco) - and it involves scandal and asylums and relatives and wot-not. It goes on forever but at the end, Gig Young is laughing all the way to the bedroom! Fancy that as your living arrangement, eh guys? Apparently Wilkie Collins wrote this sort of thing first. Anyway, it's an ok film but nothing new in plot twists - seen it all before.

bkoganbing A long term plan to get the fabled Fairlie inheritance starts to go awry the second visiting artist and art instructor Gig Young comes to the Fairlie estate in Great Britain. He runs into the Woman In White, a rather strange young lady and then a coach with people in it looking for same. He decides to pretend he knows nothing.Our heiress Laura Fairlie and the mysterious Woman In White are both played by Eleanor Parker. Almost up to the end I had trouble figuring out exactly what the relationship was between the two Eleanors so I will not say. It's half the fun of watching the film.There's a pair of villains in the piece Sidney Greenstreet playing Count Fosco, playing him with the same avuncular malice as Casper Guttman. He's a scientist with a title like Baron Von Frankenstein. But rather than experimenting with dead bodies, Fosco prefers to work on the mind with chemicals and intimidation. He's getting a big payoff for arranging the marriage between Parker the heiress and a rapacious no account count John Emery. The only friend the heiress has in the house is companion Alexis Smith.My favorite in the film is John Abbott who is Parker's father who has the constitution of a napkin and makes Adrian Monk look hale and hearty with all his phobias. Greenstreet and Emery intimidate him rather easily.Second favorite is Agnes Moorehead who is the countess Fosco and with very little dialog, but much facial expression is the picture of a woman scorned.This Victorian Gothic drama has one fine cast of scene stealers all working overtime for your enjoyment. The end is unforgettable.