Lady of Vengeance

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Directed byBurt Balaban
Written byIrve Tunick
Produced byBurt Balaban
Bernard Donnenfeld
Lady of Vengeance
Original British quad poster
Directed byBurt Balaban
Written byIrve Tunick
Produced byBurt Balaban
Bernard Donnenfeld
StarringDennis O'Keefe
Ann Sears
Anton Diffring
Patrick Barr
CinematographyIan D. Struthers
(as Ian Struthers)
Edited byEric Boyd-Perkins
Music byPhil Cardew
Production
companies
Princess Production Corporation
Rich & Rich Ltd.
Distributed byUnited Artists
Release dates
  • August 1957 (1957-08) (United Kingdom)
  • August 1957 (1957-08) (United States)
Running time
74 minutes
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish

Lady of Vengeance is a 1957 British second feature ('B')[1] film noir crime film directed by Burt Balaban and starring Dennis O'Keefe, Ann Sears, Anton Diffring and Patrick Barr.[2][3] It was written by Irve Tunick.

When 21-year-old Melissa Collinsv commits suicide, her guardian, the domineering American newspaper publisher William T. Marshall, searches (in flashback) for a reason. He finds it in a letter he receives from Melissa, after her death. In this, she asks Marshall to take revenge on her lover, philandering musician Larry Shaw, who caused her such pain he made life not worth living. Marshall hires criminal mastermind, Karnak, an avid philatelist. He promises him a rare stamp in exchange for planning the torturous murder of Larry Shaw. Meanwhile, Marshall's loyal secretary, Katie Whiteside, attempts to calm her boss's obsessive desires for vengeance. Matters become additionally complicated however, when Karnak targets the wrong man.

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