Michael Curtiz
Ranald MacDougall (screenplay),
James M. Cain (novel)
Joan Crawford,
Jack Carson,
Zachary Scott
Joan Crawford provides the last word in motherly sacrifice in this perverse noir melodrama of spoiled teenagers, loutish husbands, and chain restaurants. Later re-made as a Todd Haynes miniseries with Kate Winslet, the Curtiz original is a concentrated powerhouse with an excellent grasp of the minute gradations of Southern California social hierarchy.
1945
USA
English
111 mins
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