The Reckless Moment (1949) on Netflix
NR19491h 22mCrimeDramaFilm-Noir
With her husband away, Lucia Harper confronts Ted Darby, a Los Angeles criminal seeing her seventeen-year-old daughter Bea. When she finds his body, she hides it to keep her family from scandal.
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Plot summary
Tom Harper is away on business while his wife Lucia and their children stay at Balboa Island. Lucia drives to Los Angeles to tell Ted Darby, a criminal, to stop seeing her seventeen-year-old daughter Bea. That evening Bea slips out to the family boathouse to meet Darby; the next morning Lucia finds him lying dead by the jetty and takes a motorboat out to sink the body in a swamp. Once it is found and a murder investigation opens, Martin Donnelly, the partner of a loan shark called Nagel, comes to her with letters Bea had written to Darby, which Nagel held as collateral on a debt. Donnelly wants $5,000 to keep the letters from becoming public, and Lucia, who does not have the money, begins pawning her jewelry.
Cast
- David Bairas David Harper
- Jack Bakeras Man (uncredited)
- Holger Bendixenas Man (uncredited)
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- John Butleras Pawnbroker (uncredited)
- Boyd Davisas Tall Man in Post Office (uncredited)
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about The Reckless Moment (1949)
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- The Reckless Moment was Max Ophüls' last film shot in the United States, and the last movie adaptation of an Elisabeth Sanxay Holding novel released while the author was still alive.
