The Reckless Moment (1949)

Recommended

USA

Feature Film

Director: Max Ophüls

Writers: Henry Garson, Robert W. Soderberg, Mel Dinelli, Robert E. Kent, Elisabeth Sanxay Holding

Cinematographer: Burnett Guffey

Composer: Hans Salter

Cast: James Mason, Joan Bennett, Geraldine Brooks, Henry O'Neill, Shepperd Strudwick, David Bair, Roy Roberts

When her 17-year-old daughter accidentally kills her lowlife boyfriend, a respectable middle-class woman takes responsibility for matters and disposes of the body, but unfortunately for her this doesn’t put an end to the affair, as a charismatically enigmatic Irishman shows up at her door with a bundle of incriminating letters, demanding $5,000 in exchange for them, in Ophüls’s exquisitely photographed, expressively directed, and convincingly acted film Noir. Iain.Stott