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{{Short description|1954 film by Hugo Haas}}
{{For|other films of the same name|The Other Woman (disambiguation)}}
{{Infobox film
| name           = The Other Woman
| image          = The Other Woman FilmPoster.jpeg
| alt            =
| caption        = Theatrical release poster
| director       = [[Hugo Haas]]
| producer       = Hugo Haas
| screenplay     = Hugo Haas
| narrator       =
| starring       = [[Hugo Haas]]<br>[[Cleo Moore]]<br>[[John Qualen]]<br>Jan Arvan<br>[[Lance Fuller]]
| music          = [[Ernest Gold (composer)|Ernest Gold]]
| cinematography = Eddie Fitzgerald
| editing        = Robert S. Eisen
| studio         = Hugo Haas Productions
| distributor    = [[20th Century Fox]]
| released       = {{Film date|1954|12|2|United States}}
| runtime        = 81 minutes
| country        = United States
| language       = English
| budget         =
| gross          =
}}
'''''The Other Woman''''' is a 1954 American [[film noir]] written, directed and produced by [[Hugo Haas]]. Haas, [[Cleo Moore]] and [[John Qualen]] starred in the film.<ref>{{IMDb title|id=0047317|title=The Other Woman}}.</ref>
==Plot==
After aspiring actress Sherry Stewart auditions for director Walter Darman but doesn't get the part, she decides to blackmail him.
Sherry and her boyfriend Ronnie cook up a scheme, drugging Darman's drink, lying to him later that he and Sherry had become intimate, then threatening to tell his wife unless Darman comes up with $50,000.
Darman decides to confront Sherry directly, but tempers flare and he strangles her to death. His wife Lucille chooses an inopportune time to confront the actress herself, finding the body. A police inspector suspects the truth and Darman's guilty conscience eventually forces him to confess.
==Cast==
* [[Hugo Haas]] as Walter Darman
* [[Cleo Moore]] as Sherry Stewart
* [[Lance Fuller]] as Ronnie
* [[Lucille Barkley]] as Mrs. Lucille Darman
* Jack Macy as Charles Lester
* [[John Qualen]] as Papasha
* Jan Arvan as Police Inspector Collins
* Karolee Kelly as Marion
==Reception==
===Critical response===
Film critic Dennis Schwartz dismissed the film as "...a dull film noir, suffering from an unconvincing plot, and dry acting."<ref>[http://homepages.sover.net/~ozus/otherwoman.htm Schwartz, Dennis], film review, ''Ozus' World Movie Reviews''. March 28, 2013.</ref> Cinema scholar Milan Hain is much more sympathetic to the film. "''The Other Woman'' is Haas' most ambitious film, with many themes and motifs mirroring his own career: life in exile characterized by disillusionment and entrapment, loss of one's identity and social status, hopeless struggle with the Hollywood machinery, and the impossibility of fully realizing one's artistic visions."<ref>[https://www.academia.edu/2208234/Hugo_Haas._Forgotten_%C3%89migr%C3%A9 Hain, Milan], "Hugo Haas. Forgotten Émigré", ''Noir City, Winter 2012''. November 22, 2016</ref>
==References==
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==External links==
* {{IMDb title|id=0047317|title=The Other Woman}}
* {{AllMovie title|id=128031|title=The Other Woman}}
* {{TCMDb title|id=85917|title=The Other Woman}}
* [http://wheredangerlives.blogspot.com/2010/03/other-woman-1954.html ''The Other Woman''] informational site and essay by Mark Fertig
* {{YouTube|pOKWDWV-qnM|''The Other Woman'' film scene}}
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[[Category:Films directed by Hugo Haas]]
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