All About Eve
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Director:Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Studio:20th Century Fox
Rating:5
Rated:Unrated
Date Added:2006-03-21
ASIN:B00006RCO1
UPC:0024543060673
Price:14.98
Genre:Classics
Location:0268
Duration:139
Aspect Ratio:1.33:1
Features:Black & White
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Summary: Showered with Oscars, this wonderfully bitchy (and witty) comedy written and directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz concerns an aging theater star (Bette Davis) whose life is being supplanted by a wolf-in-sheep's-clothing ingenue (Anne Baxter) whom she helped. This is a film for a viewer to take in like a box of chocolates, packed with scene-for-scene delights that make the entire story even better than it really is. The film also gives deviously talented actors such as George Sanders and Thelma Ritter a chance to speak dazzling lines; Davis bites into her role and never lets go. A classic from Mankiewicz, a legendary screenwriter and the brilliant director of A Letter to Three Wives, The Barefoot Contessa, and Sleuth. --Tom Keogh