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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 |
Custom 1: | Copied |
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
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