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25 April 1951 (USA) moreTagline:
SHE's the kind of woman that made NEW ORLEANS famous!Plot:
Barbara Beaurevel lives with her aunt and cousin in New Orleans in the late 1800's. In love with Mark Lucas... more | add synopsisUser Comments:
Worth a glimpse for rare Janis Carter performance moreCast
(Complete credited cast) | Robert Mitchum | ... | Dr. Mark Lucas |
 | Ava Gardner | ... | Barbara Beaurevel |
 | Melvyn Douglas | ... | Paul Beaurevel |
 | Lucile Watson | ... | Aunt Eula Beaurevel |
| Janis Carter | ... | Corinne Lucas |
| Gordon Oliver | ... | Clay Duchesne |
| Basil Ruysdael | ... | Dean Cazzley |
| Clarence Muse | ... | Pompey |
| Walter Kingsford | ... | Coroner |
| Jack Briggs | ... | Cousin Philippe |
 | Will Wright | ... | Luther Toplady |
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70 min | UK:81 minCountry:
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1.37 : 1 moreSound Mix:
Mono (RCA Sound System)Certification:
USA:Approved (PCA #14149) | UK:12 (DVD rating) | Finland:K-3 (new rating 2001) | Italy:VM14 | Finland:S | Sweden:15 | USA:TV-PG (TV rating)MOVIEmeter: 
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Romantic melodrama hung with Spanish moss, My Forbidden Past is so much gaudy claptrap. Taking several actors who made their names in the hot crucible of film noir and plunking them into a tired, costumed period-piece showed perverse ingenuity. The plot involves duplicitous machinations within a love...trapezoid?...in New Orleans at some vague juncture between the Surrender at Appomatox and the Guns of August, 1914.
Both Robert Mitchum and Ava Gardner, as the "good" lovers, flail around like fish out of water; the best performances come from the skunks: Melvyn Douglas, Lucile Watson and, especially, Janis Carter, as Gardner's rival (and in the same league of tough cookies; she has been called, from her relative few appearances, the "poor man's Barbara Stanwyck").
The most baffling part of the movie concerns Gardner's deceased grandmother, whose name MUST NOT BE UTTERED! Mixed blood? It's just left that she was a "notorious" woman -- what, a voodoo priestess? Her life story sounds like better watching than these silly 70 minutes.