Directed by:
Alfred ZeislerScreenplay:
Sherman L. LoweCinematography:
Gilbert WarrentonComposer:
Alexander LaszloCast:
Martha Vickers, John Beal, Hillary Brooke, Douglass Dumbrille, Marie Blake, Ralph Graves, Harry Lauter, Sam Harris, Jack Chefe, Don C. Harvey, Ralph Brooks (more)Plots(1)
One thing you can say about Alimony: It tackled a subject that virtually everyone in Hollywood was intimately familiar with. Martha Vickers plays a ruthless young woman who has hit upon a clever (if not original) method of fattening her bank account. She seeks out relationships with wealthy married men, gets them to leave their wives to marry her, then cooks up "alienation of affection" and "adultery" cases against them. As a result, she invariably leaves the divorce court with a huge alimony settlement. Eventually she graduates from breaking hearts to breaking laws, and is thrown in the calaboose for her troubles. (official distributor synopsis)
(more)Cast
Martha Vickers
USA
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John Beal
USA
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Hillary Brooke
USA
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Douglass Dumbrille
Canada
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Marie Blake
USA
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Ralph Graves
USA
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Harry Lauter
USA
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Sam Harris
Australia
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Jack Chefe
Russian Empire
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Don C. Harvey
USA
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Ralph Brooks
USA
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Charles Sherlock
USA
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Franklyn Farnum
USA
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Phil Arnold
USA
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The Big Heat (1953)
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Stanley Blystone
USA
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Charles Jordan
UK
Best movies:
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Leonid Kinskey
Russia
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Eddie Borden
USA
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Tom Coleman
USA
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Ralph Montgomery
USA
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