The Reckless Moment

Joan Bennett and James Mason become entangled in a web of secrets and unexpected attraction in Max Ophüls masterful domestic noir.

Max Ophüls classic noir-melodrama star’s Joan Bennett as a woman whose quiet life is shattered when her daughter’s lover is found dead. Desperate to protect her family, she covers up the incident only to face a blackmailer (James Mason), who holds incriminating letters. As tensions mount and danger closes in, she must risk everything in a gripping battle of secrets and unexpected attraction.