Story Line
Stage actress Valerie Stanton is locked in a bitter feud with her producer and ex Gordon Dunning. When he attempts to blackmail her into remaining under contract with his company, Stanton, in a fit of passion, clubs Dunning with a statuette, killing him. Her gloves have prevented fingerprints but her perfect alibi quickly unravels as Captain Danbury begins investigating.
“Rosalind has her eye on three men... three men have their eye on Rosalind... one of them is up to no good!”
Top Cast
Rosalind Russell
Valerie Stanton
Leo Genn
Michael Morrell
Claire Trevor
Marian Webster
Sydney Greenstreet
Capt. Danbury
Leon Ames
Gordon Dunning
Frank McHugh
Ernie Boyle
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Rating
6.3/ 10
Release Date
1948-07-13
Runtime
1h 40m
Genres
DramaThriller
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User Reviews (2)
John Chard
7/10
•2/7/2016Where did you get your luck, Valerie? Or does God pity the wicked?
The Velvet Touch is directed by Jack Gage and collectively written by Leo Rosten, Walter Reilly, William Mercer and Annabel Ross. It stars Rosalind Russell, Leo Genn, Claire Trevor...
CinemaSerf
6/10
•7/9/2022This is a very glamorous, but rather cyclical, drama about a theatrical impresario "Dunning" (Leon Ames) who discovers "Valerie Stanton" (Rosalind Russell) and turns her into a star of latter day stage equivalents of soap operas. Of course, there is ...