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01/07/1950 Drama 1h 18m
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Overview

Impoverished British bank clerk John Ross is hopelessly in love with drop-dead gorgeous Irene James. Ross will do anything to win Irene's affections - including embezzlement. She ends up marrying him, but she can't give up her true love, slimy counterfeiter Jimmy Smart...

  1. Lewis Gilbert

    Director

Top billed cast

  1. Pat Kirkwood

    Irene James (as Patricia Kirkwood)

  2. Jack Watling

    John Ross

  3. Joy Shelton

    Vera Lamb

  4. Sydney Tafler

    Jimmy Smart

  5. Thora Hird

    Mrs. James

  6. Humphrey Lestocq

    Lewis Canfield

  7. Gordon McLeod

    Mr. Ross

  8. Edith Sharpe

    Mrs. Ross

  9. Harry Fowler

    Bill James

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Reviews

A review by John Chard
Written by John Chard on 2014-07-20
The Reformatory Girl.

There is very little known and written about as regards Lewis Gilbert's Once a Sinner. It's one of those British "B" noir productions that hasn't been readily available to Brit Noir completists. Thankfully some stalwart noir peeps have kept it topical via internet forums and it does have an official DVD release now.

Once a Sinner is very British. The backdrop is quintessentially of the British period, a place of terrace houses, smoky public houses and working class citizens trawling the wet streets that are dimly lit by bulbous lamps. The dialect and delivery is al...read the rest
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Status
Released

Original Language
English

Budget
$0.00

Revenue
$0.00

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