Lady from Louisiana

1941

Action / Drama / Romance / Western

4
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 30% · 50 ratings
IMDb Rating 5.8/10 10 619 619

new orleans, louisiana lawyer

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Plot summary

Northern lawyer John Reynolds travels to New Orleans to try and clean up the local crime syndicate based around a lottery. Although he meets Julie Mirbeau and they are attracted to each other, the fact that her father heads the lottery means they end up on opposite sides. When her father is killed, Julie becomes more and more involved in the shady activities and in blocking Reynolds' attempts at prosecution.

Director

Bernard Vorhaus Photo
Bernard Vorhaus

Top cast

Gino Corrado Photo
Gino Corrado as Lottery Victim
Jack Raymond Photo
Jack Raymond as Lottery Thug
Ona Munson Photo
Ona Munson as Julie Mirbeau
Anthony Warde Photo
Anthony Warde as Lottery Thug
720p.BLU
762.5 MB
960*720
English 2.0
Approved
23.976 fps
1 hr 23 min
Seeds 2

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by CinemaSerf 6 / 10

John Wayne ("Reynolds") meets a lady - Ona

John Wayne ("Reynolds") meets a lady - Ona Munson ("Julie Mirabeau") on a Mississippi river boat heading for New Orleans. When they are met on arrival by the feisty Helen Westley ("Blanche") and the girl's esteemed father Henry Stephenson ("Gen. Mirabeau") we discover all we will need to know: Lawyer Duke has been summoned at the behest of Westley to begin an investigation into the city lottery being run by Stephenson. The General epitomises the almost chivalric society that exists on the surface whilst ensuring that his fellow citizens buy plenty of lottery tickets (willingly or otherwise). When the old gent discovers his right hand man is overstepping the mark, he fires him - that riles "Blackie" (Ray Midddleton) and when, shortly afterwards, young "Julie" suddenly finds herself an orphan she decides to involve herself more in her now late father's "charitable" work and to blame "Reynolds" for his death... It runs a bit to melodrama, this - but there are stronger than usual themes of extortion, bribery and corruption on an pretty grand scale. The ending to the story is pretty predictable, lame even, but there are some cracking storm effects that demonstrate just how easily nature could eradicate even the most substantial structures put in place to protect folks. Stephenson (perhaps not his wobbly accent, so much) is his usual dapper self, there is a bit of fun chemistry between Wayne and Munson but Helen Westley steals this for me as the determined old woman set upon cleaning up her town.
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Reviewed by happytrigger-64-390517 6 / 10

Interesting B movie in New Orleans

Lady from Louisiana was directed by Bernard Vorhaus who shot some nice B movies like Amazing Mr X, Bury me dead, and of course the fantastic thriller "the Last journey".

In Lady from Louisiana, we have the classic opposition of law against corruption, with a love story between the prosecutor (John Wayne) and the owner of vice establishments financed by her lottery (Ona Munsen) who ignores the rackets and killings Of Ray Middleton. Really classic story, but set in New Orleans and wonderfully shot by Vorhaus and cinematographer Jack Marta, the movie has some fine visual moments at night with travellings and strong editing, the best part being the hurricane with not enough budget for being spectacular. Forget the lousy comedy scenes.

Bernard Vorhaus wrote an interesting autobiography, Saved from oblivion.

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