The Widow

The Widow (1955)

La vedova X

What possessed this wealthy widow to test her young lover with a beautiful temptress?

A woman falls in love with a race-car driver who two-times her for another girl.

Date of release
1955-08-01
TMDB
9.0 / 10 (1)
Runtime
1h 20m
Genres
Romance
Director
Lewis Milestone

Casting

Interesting facts

The Widow is a 1955 romantic drama film directed by Lewis Milestone and written by Milestone and Louis Stevens, based on the novel La Vedova by Susan York. The film had a theatrical release in Italy in 1955, limited release in the United States in 1957, and was released in France on 4 June 1959 under the title La Veuve. This was the last Milestone film involving his own writing.

Background

Lewis Milestone was affected by blacklisting during the 1950s and found it difficult to find work. He and his wife went to Paris to wait out the "red scare". While working abroad, Lewis Milestone and Diana Vedova directed La Vedova X as a joint British-Italian production.

This film followed upon his work in England on Melba in 1953 and They Who Dare in 1954. This marked the last Milestone film involving his own writing. When he returned to the United States, he had to "scrape by" directing episodes for television series such as Alfred Hitchcock Presents, Schlitz Playhouse, Suspicion, and Have Gun – Will Travel, before directing Pork Chop Hill in 1959.

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