The Girl in the Red Velvet Swing
1955 American film directed by Richard Fleischer
The Girl in the Red Velvet Swing
The Girl in the Red Velvet Swing is a 1955 American crime melodrama film directed by Richard Fleischer from a screenplay by Walter Reisch and Charles Brackett, and starring Joan Collins, Ray Milland, and Farley Granger. It is based on the real-life scandal of model and actress Evelyn Nesbit (Collins), surrounding the June 1906 killing of her former paramour and alleged rapist, the prominent architect Stanford White (Milland), by her husband, the rail and coal heir Harry Kendall Thaw (Granger). This was one of several films directed by Fleischer which dramatized real-life murder cases, he later directed Compulsion (1959, based on the Leopold and Loeb), The Boston Strangler (1968, based on the eponymous serial killer and apprehension of Albert DeSalvo), and 10 Rillington Place (1971, based on John Christie). The Girl in the Red Velvet Swing was released by 20th Century Fox on October 1, 1955.
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