The Wicked Lady (1945)
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77% of users liked it
(623 ratings)
In this drama, set during the reign of King Charles II, the aristocratic Lady Skelton (Margaret Lockwood) attempts to relieve the tedium of her day-to-day life by secretly acting as a highway robber. Meeting up with the rogue Captain Jerry Jackson (James Mason), the two begin a relationship. When… More In this drama, set during the reign of King Charles II, the aristocratic Lady Skelton (Margaret Lockwood) attempts to relieve the tedium of her day-to-day life by secretly acting as a highway robber. Meeting up with the rogue Captain Jerry Jackson (James Mason), the two begin a relationship. When her private and public lives begin to interfere with one another, however, Lady Skelton finds herself caught up in a tangled web of romance, danger, and jealousy. ~ Iotis Erlewine, Rovi
- Directed By
- Leslie Arliss
- Written By
- Magdalen King-Hall, Leslie Arliss
- Genres
- Drama, Action & Adventure
Unrated,
- In Theaters
- Nov 15, 1945 Wide
- Studio
- Universal Pictures
Critic Reviews
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Sarah Boslaugh, PopMatters
...the women get most of the action, and Griffith Jones, who plays Barbara's husband, and James Mason, her highwayman boyfriend, are both left in the dust by [Margaret] Lockwood.
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Jordan Cronk, Slant Magazine
Gainsborough Pictures would, for about a three-year stretch in the mid-1940s, take the melodrama to heights yet untouched with a series of audacious, preposterous tales of treachery and deceit.
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Cast
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Margaret Lockwood
as Barbara Worth/Lady Skelton
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James Mason
as Capt. Jerry Jackson
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Patricia Roc
as Caroline
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Griffith Jones
as Sir Ralph Skelton
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Enid Stamp Taylor
as Lady Henrietta Kingsclere
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Michael Rennie
as Kit Locksby
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Felix Aylmer
as Hogarth
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David Horne
as Martin Worth
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Martita Hunt
as Cousin Agatha Trimble
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Francis Lister
as Lord Kingsclere
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Amy Dalby
as Aunt Doll
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Beatrice Varley
as Aunt Moll
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Helen Goss
as Mistress Betsy
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Muriel Aked
as Mrs. Munce
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Ivor Barnard
as Clergyman
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Emrys Jones
as Ned Cotterell
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Jean Kent
as Doxy
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Aubrey Mallalieu
as Doctor
