An Ideal Husband (1947) Ένας Ιδανικός Σύζυγος



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Ένας εξέχων πολιτικός προετοιμάζεται να εκθέσει ένα οικονομικό σκάνδαλο. Αλλά τότε μια γυναίκα που έχει επενδύσει σε μεγάλο βαθμό στην επιχείρηση απειλεί να αποκαλύψει ένα καταστρεπτικό μυστικό στο παρελθόν του πολιτικού. Το πρόβλημά του επιδεινώνεται από τη μισαλλοδοξία της συζύγου του.

Director: Alexander Korda
Writers: Lajos Biró, Oscar Wilde
Stars: Paulette Goddard, Michael Wilding, Diana Wynyard

A prominent politician is preparing to expose a financial scandal. But then a woman who has invested heavily in the shady venture threatens to uncover a damaging secret in the politician’s past if he exposes the speculation as a fraud. His problem is compounded by his wife’s intolerance of the slightest character flaws.

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13 Replies to “An Ideal Husband (1947) Ένας Ιδανικός Σύζυγος”

  1. “. . . His problem is compounded by his wife's intolerance of the slightest character flaws.”
    But, alas . . . his wife’s intolerance of her husband’s character flaws IS HER CHARACTER FLAW???

  2. I don't remember the play well enough, but the recent remake of this movie had Lord Chiltern's pecadillo be much more blameless morally, and more an accident of appearances. He was a lot easier to sympathize with than this version

  3. Gowns by Cecil Beaton — for

    fans of Proust, the orchid pinned on Miss Goddard at 1:05:45 is a Cattleya labiata. And for the riding outfit @1:21:26 google images of the "last courtesan" Catherine "Skittles" Walters mounted in dressage that once shocked Victorian society….

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