Ladies in Retirement
The Great Broadway Melodrama Comes to Flaming Life on the Screen!
A gothic melodrama about a housekeeper whose carefully ordered life unravels into murder when her troubled sisters arrive, blending domestic claustrophobia with noir-tinged moral decay.
Ellen Creed is a housekeeper who looks after Leonora Fiske, a retired actress living in the English countryside. When Ellen's eccentric sisters visit their sibling at Leonora's home, tensions soon lead to murder.
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