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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Warner Brothers
EAN: 0085393892524
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Original recording remastered, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Label: Warner Bros. Pictures
Manufacturer: Warner Bros. Pictures
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Warner Bros. Pictures
Region Code: 1
Release Date: May 02, 2006
Running Time: 114 minutes
Sales Rank: 28709
Studio: Warner Bros. Pictures
Theatrical Release Date: December 18, 1956
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Scandalous in its time still steamy today: Tennessee Williams' ribald tale of a Mississippi child bride (Carroll Baker) and the men (Karl Malden Eli Wallach) who lust after her. Year: 1956 Director: Elia Kazan Starring: Karl Malden Carroll Baker Eli WallachRunning Time: 115 min.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: DRAMA Rating: NR UPC: 085393892524 Manufacturer No: 38925
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An earlier Elia Kazan film, the 1949 Pinky, now seems dated because its "scandalous" subject, miscegenation, has become a social nonissue. If anything, the reputation of this legendary 1956 romp about a child bride in the Deep South has shifted the other way; the ripe image of Carol Baker as a mentally challenged nymphet who sucks her thumb as she lures grown men into her crib (an actual crib!) would probably be hounded off the screen today. When it was originally released the film won a "condemned" rating from the Catholic Legion of Decency, but it isn't as explicit as that might suggest. Current audiences are likely to be shocked not by what's actually shown, but by the mere fact that the movie is a comedy, in effect a sex farce, adapted by Tennessee Williams from a couple of his raunchier one-act plays. Karl Malden is the divine cream puff's sad-sack husband, who has agreed to keep hands off until she turns 19; Eli Wallach is a high-stepping rival in the cotton business who harbors no such scruples. --David Chute
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Rating:  -
Elia Kazan directed two movies based on the works of Tennessee Williams - "Baby Doll" (1956) and the brilliant "A Streetcar Named Desire" (1951). Although "Baby Doll" is not up to the standards of "Streetcar," it's an interesting film. Carroll Baker stars as the titular Baby Doll Meighan, a 19-year-old child-woman who sleeps in a crib. She married the much older Archie Lee (Karl Malden) with the caveat that they wouldn't consummate the marriage until she turned 20 years old. The couple lives ... Read More
Rating:  -
Baby Doll is definitely a classic. Tennessee Williams was famous for his grittiness and slightly-exaggerated reality; Baby Doll is one of the best of its genre. The acting is excellent and the ambiance is perfect for what Williams was trying to create. I like color, but black-and-white fits the mood of this movie, which is almost film noir. It's a must-see.
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Often times when people think of director Elia Kazan, they think of his professional movie greats and his personal blunders during McCarthy era. This is the first film of his I saw on DVD and I was smitten by it from the start. Everything about this film is perfection: sceenplay prepared after Tennessee Williams' play, cast, direction. I remember seeing actor Karl Malden as older man in a movies of my childhood and it is just amazing to see him in a fine role of Archie in this film during her ... Read More
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Notorious in its time as the filthiest picture ever made, this steamy, depraved black comedy from the poison pen of Southern playwright Tennessee Williams was helmed by Elia Kazan ("A Streetcar Named Desire") and photographed in crisp, stark black-and-white by lensman Boris Kaufman. Malden's disturbing portrayal of cuckold-to-be Archie is a far cry from his later TV stint on "Streets of San Francisco." But see it for a wonderfully sleazy Wallach (in his film debut) and the Oscar-nominated Baker, ... Read More
Rating:  -
This film is more notable for it's notoriety at the time of it's release than any aesthetic qualities. Tennessee William's story is meandering and unbelievably talky. The film's so-called eroticism isn't likely to give you goose pimples. Carroll Baker's performance in the title role can be compared to wood. The film's virtues would be some good camera-work and Southern ambience as well as outstanding performances by Karl Malden as Baby Doll's cuckolded husband and Eli Wallach as Malden's business ... Read More
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