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Name: Madame X
Released: 1966-2-26
Cast: Lana Turner, John Forsythe, Ricardo Montalban, Burgess Meredith, Constance Bennett

Madame X

NR
1h 40m
1966

50%

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Lana Turner plays one of the best roles of her career in this stunning and emotional adaptation of Alexandre Bisson’s classic play. Turner is the ill-fated Holly Parker, blackmailed by her evil mother-in-law (Constance Bennett) into leaving her politician husband (John Forsythe) and their baby. Twenty years later, she finds herself on trial for murder, where she is defended by her own son (Keir Dullea).

Director:

David Lowell Rich

Producer:

Ross Hunter

Writer:

Jean Holloway

Cast:

Lana Turner, John Forsythe, Ricardo Montalban, Burgess Meredith, Constance Bennett, Keir Dullea

Rotten Tomatoes® Score

TOMATOMETER®

50%

Reviews

McCall's

Pauline Kael

Madame X is so excruciating not only because the actors and actresses do not embody what they’re supposed to, but because the movie depends on the conventions of the M-G-M style of the ’forties. It is spiritually dedicated to the worst of old Hollywood.

Madame X is an emotional Grand Guignol, a hysterical soap opera that would end up being the final and potentially most memorable hour of Lana Turner.

worth watching for the fine cast of performers but the story is tiresome. There is no respite from all the suffering Holly has to go through and that made me feel exhausted by the end of that 1 hour and 40 minute journey.

Lana Turner's stinker to remember.

June 27, 2019

FULL REVIEW

City Pages, Minneapolis/St. Paul

Rob Nelson

Completed the same year as the star's first face-lift, Madame X viciously spans two dozen years, inspiring one gossip columnist of the time to joke that Constance Bennett looked younger without makeup than Turner did with it.

June 21, 2017

FULL REVIEW