No Man of Her Own

A woman is torn between a comfortable lie and the painful truth in this drama. After she is abandoned by her unfaithful boyfriend Stephen Morely (Lyle Bettger), Helen Ferguson (Barbara Stanwyck) discovers that she's pregnant, and she has no choice but to go home to her family. Shortly after boarding ...more

As befits a film derived from a Cornell Woolrich novel (although written under a pen name), there's an aura of impending gloom and fatality that hovers over No Man of Her Own, a sense that Fate is bound to deal a blow to happiness -- it's merely a question of when the blow will come and in what form. This makes the contrived happy ending -- a definite departure from the book -- all the more ludicrous. Truth to tell, No Man's screenplay has more than its share of hard-to-accept moments. Some of ...more