Valerie (1957)
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Anita Ekberg amply fills the title role in the offbeat western Valerie. Clearly inspired by Rashomon, the film offers contradictory flashbacks during a lengthy trial. The defendant, Civil War hero John Garth, Sterling Hayden, is accused of seriously wounding his wife Valerie and murdering her parents. At first, the jury's sympathy is with Garth, who claims that his faithless wife was running off with preacher Blake (played by Ekberg's then-husband Anthony Steel) and that the death of his in-laws was accidental. But as testimony proceeds, it is revealed that the highly respectable, much-beloved Garth is a beast in human form. The complicated outcome of the trial has so many twists and turns that it would be criminal to reveal any one of them. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
Complete Cast:
- Sterling Hayden - John Garth
- Anthony Steel - Rev. Blake
- John Wengraf - Louis Horvat
- Jerry Barclay - Mingo
- Tom McKee - Dave Carlin
- Sidney Smith - Judge Frisbee
- Stanley Adams - Dr. Jackson
- John Dierkes
- Anita Ekberg - Valerie
- Peter Walker - Herb Garth
- Iphigenie Castiglioni - Mrs. Horvat
- Robert Adler - Lundy
- Gage Clarke - Lawyer Griggs
- Juney Ellis - Nurse Linsey
- Malcolm Atterbury
- Brian O'Hara
- Director(s):
- Gerd Oswald
- Writer(s):
- Emmett Murphy
- Producer(s):
- Hal R. Makelim
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