Hedy Lamarr was a remarkable woman. Not only was she a great actress, but she was an inventor too. She helped design a torpedo navigation system that became the basis for Bluetooth and Wi-Fi technologies.
Here she plays a woman who is considered strange, and perhaps evil because she has the audacity to act like a man. Not in any physical, sexual, or gendered way, but rather she recognizes that to get what she wants, she has to do what the men do around her – she has to take it.
It is a strange movie, and not a particularly great one, but it has a great performance from Lamarr. You can read my full review of the new Blu-ray over at Cinema Sentries.
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