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The Velvet Touch

The Velvet Touch

6,3 /10 (32 Votes)
1948 EN 100 min

Overview

After accidentally killing her lecherous producer, a famous actress tries to hide her guilt.

Release date

13/07/1948

Votes

32

Popularity

0.6

Rosalind has her eye on three men... three men have their eye on Rosalind... one of them is up to no good!

Genres

Status

Released

Language

EN

Runtime

100 min

Original Soundtrack

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John Chard

John Chard

2016-02-07

⭐ 7

Where did you get your luck, Valerie? Or does God pity the wicked? The Velvet Touch is directed by Jack Gage and collectively written by Leo Rosten, Walter Reilly, William Mercer and Annabel Ross. It stars Rosalind Russell, Leo Genn, Claire Trevor, Sydney Greenstreet and Leon Ames. Music is by Leigh Harline and cinematography by Joseph Walker. Ah, now then, is this a murder mystery in reverse? At the beginning we are shown the crime of murder, so we know the main character is guilty. The rest of the picture thrives on if Valerie Stanton (Russell) will either get caught by the law, own up…

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CinemaSerf

CinemaSerf

2022-07-09

⭐ 6

This is a very glamorous, but rather cyclical, drama about a theatrical impresario "Dunning" (Leon Ames) who discovers "Valerie Stanton" (Rosalind Russell) and turns her into a star of latter day stage equivalents of soap operas. Of course, there is their simultaneous romance that has long since lost it's sparkle and is now just the source of constant rancour between the two who now only need the other for financial reasons. Enter Walter Kingsford who offers her a much meatier part and Leo Genn as a British architect with whom she has actually fallen in love and the story builds to a rather pr…

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