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IMDB rating: 6,8
Director: Harry Beaumont
Main Cast: Tallulah Bankhead, Robert Montgomery, Hugh Herbert
"Faithless was titled 'Tinfoil' during pre-production, which is perhaps a more apt description of this story about a calculating heiress who loses everything only to find her heart. Although never abandoning her husky mid-Atlantic speech pattern - Bankhead's desperate prostitute still says 'cahn't' - the grand dame's acting prowess stands her in good stead throughout and she remains believable to the very end. Robert Montgomery is his usual affable self, but comedian Hugh Herbert is surprisingly potent as Bankhead's nasty 'sugar daddy'. Faithless is pure soap opera, but as such it never fails to entertain.
Tallulah Bankhead made her name on the stage and came to Hollywood under contract to MGM. Faithless would be her last film until 1944's Lifeboat. Bankhead's particular style of acting was not effective on film, and it was probably because of the way she was cast. In Lifeboat, she's perfect - Hitchcock wanted 'the most oblique, incongruous person imaginable in such a situation'. Robert Montgomery plays one of depression's many unlucky - what jobs he gets, he loses because the companies close, and he's finally attacked on the job by employees who feel threatened. Through it all, he keeps his dignity and hope." - www.allmovie.com
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