Portrait of a Sinner
Cast & Crew
Robert Siodmak
Nadja Tiller
Tony Britton
William Bendix
Natasha Parry
Norman Wooland
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Synopsis
Angered with his overbearing fiancée, young archeologist Mike Thompson becomes involved with the mysterious Ila Hansen, a German woman who, at 16 years of age, was raped by Jack, a friend of her sailor brother. As their affair progresses, Mike learns that Ila is sharing a flat with her boss, Reg Barker. Mike's anger is moderated when the older man explains that he is impotent and that the arrangement is strictly for business purposes. Soon thereafter, Jack appears and demands that Ila give him £1,500 he needs to avoid imminent trouble. When Ila is unable to get the money from either Mike or Reg, she turns on them and brazenly admits that Jack is the only man capable of satisfying her sexual appetite. Unable to face the future without Ila, Reg commits suicide. Ila then goes to Mike's fiancée, Margaret Goreham, and tries to barter Mike for cash. When she is scorned, Ila, realizing she has lost all three men, walks out and picks up the first man who comes along.
Director
Robert Siodmak
Cast
Nadja Tiller
Tony Britton
William Bendix
Natasha Parry
Norman Wooland
Donald Wolfit
Tony Wright
Adrienne Corri
Joyce Carey
John Welsh
Martin Miller
Michael Ward
Edward Chapman
Norman Pierce
Beatrice Varley
Myles Eason
Cyril Smith
Geoffrey Bayldon
Crew
Ken Adam
Gerry Arbeid
Bill Baldwin
Bill Bennison
Don Challis
Rusty Coppleman
Harold Fletcher
Doreen Francis
Douglas Gamley
Thomas Goswell
Julie Harris
Harry Haynes
Harold Haysom
Otto Heller
Peter Honri
Bill Isaacs
Ken Jones
Dudley Leslie
Audrey Erskine Lindop
Al Marcus
Muir Mathieson
George Minter
George Minter
Minter--siodmak
Elizabeth Montagu
Pat Newman
Joe Pearce
Tom Pevsner
Gordon Pilkington
Bill Robson
Sinfonia Of London
Herbert Smith
J. B. Smith
Maude Spector
Tina Swanson
Cyril Swern
A. W. Watkins
Joan White
Trix Wilkin
Manny Wynn
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Notes
Opened in London in October 1959 as The Rough and the Smooth; running time: 99 min.
