Wicked Woman

Wicked Woman is a 1953 American film noir film starring Beverly Michaels, Richard Egan, Percy Helton, and Evelyn Scott. Directed by Russell Rouse, the film was written by Rouse and Clarence Greene. Plot An attractive blonde drifter (Beverly Michaels) arrives in town on a bus and gets a job as a waitress at a local bar. She sets her sights on the bar's handsome owner (Richard Egan), who is married to an alcoholic waitress there, (Evelyn Scott), who inherited the lounge from her father. Michaels seduces Egan and schemes for the pair to sell the bar without the wife's knowledge and skip to Mexico together. Before they can a boarder at the rooming house where Michaels is staying that she had enticed then jilted, (Percy Helton), discovers her plans and attempts blackmail. Cast Beverly Michaels as Billie Nash Richard Egan as Matt Bannister Percy Helton as Charlie Borg Evelyn Scott as Dora Bannister Robert Osterloh as Larry Lowry Frank Ferguson as Bill Porter Bernadene Hayes as Mrs. Walters Production The low-budget film, produced under the working title of Free and Easy, was the first leading role for Richard Egan.