Wicked Woman (film)


Wicked Woman is a 1953 American low-budget film noir film directed by Russell Rouse and starring Beverly Michaels, Richard Egan, Percy Helton, and Evelyn Scott. The film was written by Rouse and Clarence Greene.

Plot

A blonde drifter busses into town and gets a job as a waitress at a local bar. She sets her sights on the bar's handsome owner, who is married to an alcoholic. Her plans are for the two of them to take the bar's money and skip to Mexico - but a boarder at the rooming house where she is staying discovers her plans, and he comes up with a plan of his own.

Cast

The film was known as Free and Easy and was the first leading role for Richard Egan.

Reception

The New York Times called the film a "misguided little melodrama" that "manages to squander some persuasively realistic upholstery".