At head of title on container: Double feature. Madame X based on a 1910 play by Alexandre Charles Auguste Bisson. Portrait in black: Lana Turner, Anthony Quinn, Sandra Dee, John Saxon, Lloyd Nolan, Ray Walston, Virginia Grey, Anna May Wong, Richard Basehart. Madame X: Lana Turner, John Forsythe, Ricardo Montalban, Burgess Meredith, Constance Bennett, Keir Dullea. Portrait in black (113 min.) originally released as a motion picture in 1960. Madame X (100 min.) originally released as a motion picture in 1966.
Summary:
Portrait in black: An adulterous couple conspire to kill the woman's tyrannical husband. Then an anonymous letter arrives advising them that someone knows their secret and their new life together begins unraveling. Madame X: A woman is blackmailed by her mother-in-law into leaving her politician husband and their baby. Twenty years later, she finds herself on trial for murder where she is defended by her own son.
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