A Dangerous Woman
About A Dangerous Woman
At a British East African post, commissioner Frank Gregory lives with Tania Gregory, whose attention is followed by the deaths of white men at the station. He learns that his brother is coming out as the next assistant. Tania turns that attention on the brother.
Cast & crew
More about A Dangerous Woman
Rowland V. Lee and Gerald Grove directed. John Farrow and Edward E. Paramore Jr. wrote the script from Margery Lawrence's story A Woman Who Needed Killing, which is also an alternate title of the film. The setting is British East Africa. It is a Paramount pre-Code release of 1929.
Themes
Background
A 1929 Paramount pre-Code drama set at a British post in East Africa.
Making
Paramount cast Baclanova opposite Brook in a colonial-station melodrama taken from Lawrence's story.
Preservation
A copy circulates on Wikimedia Commons under the alternate title A Woman Who Needed Killing.
Notes
- Olga Baclanova, billed as Baclanova, plays Tania Gregory. Clive Brook plays Frank Gregory.
- Neil Hamilton, Leslie Fenton, Clyde Cook, and Snitz Edwards are in the cast.
- A Wikimedia Commons file uses the retitle A Woman Who Needed Killing.
Scenes
- Gregory learns his brother will be the next assistant.
- Tania begins on the brother.
Influenced by
- Margery Lawrence's story A Woman Who Needed Killing
Also available
- Wikimedia Commons (A Dangerous Woman (retitled A Woman Who Needed Killing) (1929) Baclanova, Clive Brook, Neil Hamilton.webm)
