W kręgu zła (1946)

Drama, Film-Noir, Thriller

116 min    -    Rating: 6.5

Katharine Hepburn, Robert Taylor, Robert Mitchum…

Approaching middle age, spinster Ann Hamilton, the daughter of Science Professor David "Dink" Hamilton, is intelligent, but dowdy and unsophisticated; she never expects to get married and does nothing but be her tomboyish self in any effort to attract a man. Being single does not bother her and she repeatedly turns down the marriage proposal of Dink's colleague, Professor Joseph Bangs, whom she doesn't love him. When she meets wealthy, handsome industrialist Alan Garroway, who is doing business with Dink, she's surprised that she likes him, then that they have a whirlwind courtship, fall in love, and marry. Alan made his wealth during the war in a family-started business that ended up being a parts supplier to the military for their aircraft. In their bi-coastal marriage--Alan's company's headquarters in San Francisco, while he grew up and still owns property in Middleburg, Virginia, outside of Washington, D.C., where he has many friends in high society--Ann begins to have doubts: she feels out-of-place in his high-society world, like she is a laughingstock among his friends. He is able to quell her fears about this issue as he acts as her guide to fashion and society behavior. Mor