Thérèse (adapted from Emile Zola's Therese Raquin by Thomas Job; produced by Victor Payne-Jennings & Bernard Klawans) is a dark brown, 19th-Century melodrama of crime and self-punishment. Thérèse Raquin (Eva LeGallienne), married to a stuffy, sickly, mamma's boy Paris milliner, is madly in love with a painter named Laurent (Victor Jory). She eggs Laurent into doing her husband in by way of a boating "accident" on the Seine.
The lovers get away with the murder for a whilebut cannot get away from themselves. Guilt and remorse gnaw at their marriage until the...
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