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Madeleine (1950)

Fri, May 15, 2026./noise/movies | Link

Woeful David Lean completism. Over three nights due to extreme tedium. Ann Todd (freshly minted as Mrs Lean at the time) leads as a young woman madly in love with an unsuitable Frenchman (Ivan Desny) in 1850s Glasgow. Stuff happens and he dies of arsenic poison. Did she or did she not do it?

Wikipedia with all the details.