Madame X (1981 film)

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| genre = Drama

| based_on = {{Based on|Madame X|Alexandre Bisson}}

| writer = Edward Anhalt

| director = Robert Ellis Miller

| starring = Tuesday Weld
Jeremy Brett
Len Cariou
Eleanor Parker

| music = Angela Morley

| country = United States

| language = English

| producer = Paula Levenback
Wendy Riche

| editor = Skip Lusk

| cinematography = Woody Omens

| runtime = 100 minutes

| company = Levenback-Riche Productions
Universal Television

| network = NBC

| released = {{Start date|1981|03|16}}

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Madame X is a 1981 American made-for-television drama film directed by Robert Ellis Miller and starring Tuesday Weld. It is based on the 1908 play by French playwright Alexandre Bisson (1848-1912).{{Cite book |last=Grant |first=John |url=https://www.google.pt/books/edition/A_Comprehensive_Encyclopedia_of_Film_Noi/fvcJEQAAQBAJ?hl=fr&gbpv=1&dq=Madame+X%C2%A0Robert+Ellis+Miller+a&pg=PA393&printsec=frontcover |title=A Comprehensive Encyclopedia of Film Noir: The Essential Reference Guide |date=2023-09-21 |publisher=Rowman & Littlefield |isbn=978-1-4930-8165-3 |language=en}}

This film, one among many screen versions of the play, was "penned by Edward Anhalt working fro Jean Hollway's '66 screenplay."{{Cite book |last=Roberts |first=Jerry |url=https://www.google.pt/books/edition/Encyclopedia_of_Television_Film_Director/kW8j6sHvrewC?hl=fr&gbpv=1&dq=Madame+X%C2%A0Robert+Ellis+Miller+a&pg=PA394&printsec=frontcover |title=Encyclopedia of Television Film Directors |date=2009-06-05 |publisher=Scarecrow Press |isbn=978-0-8108-6378-1 |language=en}}

The film was first broadcast on NBC on March 16, 1981.{{Cite book |last=McClelland |first=Doug |url=https://www.google.pt/books/edition/Eleanor_Parker/ioVxWH6Vkp0C?hl=fr&gbpv=1&dq=Madame+X%C2%A0Robert+Ellis+Miller+a&pg=PA121&printsec=frontcover |title=Eleanor Parker: Woman of a Thousand Faces |date=2003 |publisher=Rowman & Littlefield |isbn=978-0-8108-4836-8 |language=en}}

Plot

A woman is thrown out of her home by her mother-in-law and sinks into depravity. Twenty years later, she finds herself accused of murder for saving her daughter (it was her son in all other versions), who does not know who she is.