71%User score 71 percent
What Maisie Knew
2013 · Drama
User Score
12 votes
Don't Go Near This Woman! Nothing So Beautiful Was Ever So Deadly!
It's a tale of power and passions when a Russian siren, who wants the finer things in life, sinks her hooks into a judge, a decadent aristocrat and an estate superintendent, with surprising results.
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CinemaSerf
April 4, 2022
George Sanders is the local magistrate "Petroff" in Czarist Russia in 1912. He is contentedly engaged to his rather uninspiring fiancée "Nadena" (Anna Lee) when he encounters the temptress peasant "Olga" (Linda Darnell). She quite literally knocks this otherwise pillar of the community figure off his feet much to the chagrin of "Nadena" who tells him to get lost. Turns out, "Olga" is a bit of a gold-digger, and when…
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catfactory
September 14, 2025
Tragic Romance. Doomed Choices. When Fyodor tries to settle down with Natalia, he gets fatally attracted to Olga and his life falls apart. Linda Darnell (Olga) really is irresistible and I can see why George was led astray. His love for Anna Lee (Natalia) endures however, and the *pining* he must have done after the revolution...you can see it in his eyes. I really have to hand it to Edward Everett Horton, though. He…
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