Woman Of Straw 1964 Sean Connery & Gina Lollobrigida
Woman of Straw is a 1964 British crime thriller directed by Basil Dearden and starring Gina Lollobrigida and Sean Connery. It was written by Robert Muller and Stanley Mann, adapted from the 1954 novel La Femme de paille by Catherine Arley. Plot Playboy Anthony Richmond schemes to acquire the £50 million fortune of his uncle Charles Richmond, a tyrannical, arrogant wheelchaired tycoon, by persuading Maria Marcello, the new Italian nurse he has hired to marry the old man in exchange for one million pounds. A sincere Maria endures the verbal and emotional abuse of Charles both at his estate and on a yacht trip in Mallorca, Spain, where they wed, and a humbled Charles changes his will to leave all his fortune to Maria, leaving only 40,000 pounds to his nephew. After his uncle’s death at the yacht one morning, both Anthony and Maria concoct a scheme to pretend he is still living as they return to the estate. Maria later becomes a murder suspect after admitting their scheme to the detectives, and later discovers that Anthony murdered his own Uncle with Barbiturate poison, and purposely misled Maria about Charles last will and testimony in order to trap her into the crime alone while he ulteriorly inherits the money after her conviction. Credit to : DK Classics
