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Allotment Wives is a 1945 American film noir directed by William Nigh and starring Kay Francis. Its plot is about an army investigator who tries to shut down a scam that preys on soldiers, and unknowingly falls in love with the woman behind it.
Allotment Wives: Directed by William Nigh. With Kay Francis, Paul Kelly, Otto Kruger, Gertrude Michael. Story of women who marry GIs just so they can receive the soldiers' pay and their life insurance if they are killed in action.
- (571)
- Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
- William Nigh
- 1945-11-08
For Sheila and her shadowy partner, Whitey Colton (Otto Kruger), the real business is operating a stable of beautiful women who marry lonely veterans for their government allotment pay. Once the...
- Drama
- Kay Francis
- William Nigh
Throughout World War II and into peace time, the U.S. government operates the Office of Dependency Benefits, which handles the issuing of allotment checks and family allowances to women with husbands serving in the forces.
- William Nigh, Richard Harlan
- Kay Francis
Allotment Wives takes the form of campy film noir, a sort-of take on Mildred Pierce (1945) in which a self-sacrificing mother will do anything to gain happiness for her daughter. While Mildred Pierce asks the question “could this mother really have committed murder?”
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Allotment Wives is a 1945 American FILM NOlR directed by William Nigh and starring Kay Francis, Paul Kelly and Otto Kruger. Its plot is about an army investigator who tries to shut down a scam that preys on soldiers, and unknowingly falls in love with the woman behind it.
