The Reckless Moment

Following the accidental death of her teenage daughter’s lowlife boyfriend at her lakeside house, respectable middle-class mother Lucia Harper (Bennett) instinctively disposes of the body, but her troubles have only just begun – before long a stranger (Mason) calls, blackmailing her. Based on Elisabeth Sanxay Holding’s great novel The Blank Wall, Ophüls’ film is a classic of domestic suspense.