This Woman Is Dangerous is a 1952 American film noir and crime drama by Warner Bros. starring Joan Crawford, David Brian, and Dennis Morgan in a story about a gun moll's romances with two different men against the background of her impending blindness.
The screenplay by Geoffrey Homes and George Worthing Yates was based on a story by Bernard Girard.
A gangster woman, Beth Austin, plagued by headaches, is rapidly losing her eyesight, as her eye doctor tells her.
She intends to visit a famous eye clinic in Indiana, as she tells her gangster boyfriend Matt Jackson, who is suspicious about her reasons for leaving.
Beth arrives at the Jacksons, and learns Crossland kept them informed, and that Matt left to go kill Ben.
Because the script of a gangster who saw the light had become trite by the 1950s, some sources suggest that studio head Jack L. Warner offered Crawford the role hoping the expensive star would turn it down so he could put her on suspension.
It could be the reason he offered the eye surgeon's role to Dennis Morgan, whose box-office appeal had diminished since World War II.
Crawford later instructed her agents to negotiate an end to her contract at Warner Bros., and she then made the independently produced hit Sudden Fear, which earned the actress her third Academy Award nomination.
"[3] This Woman Is Dangerous was released on Region 1 DVD on March 23, 2009 (Crawford's birthday) from the online Warner Bros. Archive Collection.