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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Warner Brothers
EAN: 9781419804922
Format: Black & White, Closed-captioned, Dubbed, DVD, Subtitled, NTSC
ISBN: 1419804928
Item Dimensions: 85
Label: Warner Home Video
Languages: EnglishOriginal LanguageDolby Digital 2.0 MonoEnglishSubtitledSpanishSubtitledFrenchSubtitledFrenchDubbedDolby Digital 2.0 Mono
Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
MPN: D68364D
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Warner Home Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: June 14, 2005
Running Time: 103 minutes
Studio: Warner Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: May 07, 1950
Editorial Review:
Product Description:
It's a man's world. And Ethel Whitehead learns there's only one way for a woman to survive in it: be as tempting as a cupcake and as tough as a 75-cent steak. In the first of three collaborations with director Vincent Sherman Joan Crawford brings hard-boiled glamour and simmering passion to the role of Ethel who moves from the wrong side of the tracks to a mobster's mansion to high society one man at a time. Some of those men love her. Some use her. And one a high-rolling racketeer abuses her. When the racketeer murders his rival in Ethel's swanky living room she flees a sure murder rap right back to the poverty she thought she had escaped. And this time there may not be a man to pick up the pieces of her shattered life.Running Time: 103 min.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: DRAMA UPC: 012569683648
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Joan Crawford bashes her way through this melodrama inspired by the Bugsy Siegel-Virginia Hill story. Our girl walks out of tacky poverty at the beginning and re-shapes herself into a fur-lined mobster's moll, her will of steel out-pointing the men at every stop. David Brian (recently her Flamingo Road co-star) is the looming blond monster who runs the organization, Steve Cochran is the Bugsy guy building his own network in Nevada, and Kent Smith is the meek accountant Joan bullies into becoming a syndicate player. It's all from that mid-career post-Mildred Pierce period that served Crawford so well, with the full-on film noir look (Ted McCord photographed) and the strong whiff of American sleaze.
Joan Crawford's face had assumed its masklike quality at this point, and at times she seems more of a business manager than an actress: organizing each scene, pushing the story along to its next stop. In its own over-the-top way, it works: there isn't a moment when she doesn't seem capable of devouring anybody that stands in her way. Everything is writ large in this movie, which makes it a fitting target for a Carol Burnett send-up... and which also makes it a great deal of fun. --Robert Horton
Average Rating: 
Rating:  -
Miss Crawford is at her best in this. You cannot take your eyes off her while she is on screen. Jerry Wald who did Mildred Pierce with her tailor made this role for her and even allowed her creative liberties, such as the character's name, Ethel Whitehead, a nod to her favorite designer Edith Head. She steals every scene she is in and is every inch the star, trouncing about in furs and sequined caftans. There is some of the best dialogue ever in this movie, listen for her philosophy about money. ... Read More
Rating: -
Joan is first seen in "The Damned Don't Cry" wearing one of her long, trademark and dramatic mink coats which probably has the biggest and the grandest cuffs ever seen in a motion picture. As usual, she looked stunning and glamorous and beautiful and classic - totally in line with the picture that has become almost synonymous with her name.
I have always loved this movie because it is 100% pure Joan Crawford. From the moment her name is shown above the title to the final scene when ... Read More
Rating:  -
Good Joan Crawford film, from the latter part of her strong Warner Brothers period. This one is more of a gangster picture than the rich, melodramatic "women's pictures" Crawford mostly made during this time, but there are certainly elements of the latter on display here, too.
It's funny, as I was watching this, I said to myself, "darn, this reminds me of the plot of Warren Beatty's 'Bugsy' movie of several years back." And, of course, as I discovered in one of the DVD's special ... Read More
Rating: -
For me, the best part about this film was the exceptional lighting which made this a great movie to see on DVD. The great black-and-white photography reminded of films like "The Sweet Smell Of Success" and "To Kill A Mockingbird." The camera-work in this movie does not take a backseat to those great films, believe me.
Story-wise, it's a somewhat-familiar Joan Crawford movie with a bit more emphasis on the melodrama than the film noir, a la Mildred Pierce. That's a compliment because ... Read More
Rating: -
This is a one woman show although it clearly was not meant that way. There are several good performances here besides Crawfords. You can feel she's in a battle to survive the studio system and age! She dominates every scene and it's great fun. For melodrama it's quite a good and intense movie. Crawford leaves her teeth marks on everyone and everything. Good supporting cast and that's all they are!
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