Mildred Pierce
The kind of woman most men want - BUT SHOULDN'T HAVE!
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DVD Details
- Rated: Not Rated
- Run Time: 1 hours, 49 minutes
- Video: Black & White
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: August 29, 2006
- Originally Released: 1945
- Label: Warner Home Video
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Joan Crawford, Jack Carson & Zachary Scott | |
Performer: | Ann Blyth, Eve Arden, Bruce Bennett, George Tobias, Lee Patrick, Moroni Olsen, Barbara Brown & Garry Owen | |
Directed by | Michael Curtiz | |
Edited by | David Weisbart | |
Screenplay by | Ranald MacDougall | |
Composition by | Max Steiner | |
Art Direction by | Anton Grot | |
Produced by | Jerry Wald | |
Director of Photography: | Ernest Haller |
Major Awards:
Academy Awards 1945 -
Best Actress: Joan Crawford
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 4/5 --
Crawford is always mesmerizing, steely and teary as she is manipulated, accused of murder and circled by men who are stolid...crass...or emollient.
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Times (UK)
Rating: 4/4 --
Joan Crawford shines in the role of Mildred; a hard-working, pie making, shoulder pad wearing and determined mother.
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Moviejawn
Rating: 5/5 --
This great film is a more subtle, nuanced beast than expected.
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Little White Lies
All this is good melodrama and fair entertainment, but it is much closer to the waltz-time schmalz of Kathleen Norris than to the fox-trot brass of James M. Cain.
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TIME Magazine
You don't think of Michael Curtiz, the great house director of Warner Bros. spectacles and prestige pictures, as one of the great noir directors but the opening twenty minutes or so is a master class in film noir directing...
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Seanax.com
Rating: 5/5 --
The tragedy of Mildred Pierce is an essential film noir.
CineVue
Rating: 4/4 --
Remains one of Hollywood's great melodramas, a rich and psychologically astute work whose power still resonates today.
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Product Description:
A potent mixture of melodrama and film noir, and one of the finest "women's films" of all time--featuring a standout performance by Joan Crawford. The story begins as the police interrogate Mildred Pierce, a wealthy restaurateur, after finding her second husband shot to death. In flashback, we see Mildred's life: her obsession with Veda, her selfish oldest daughter; her troubled first marriage, which ended in divorce; the tragic death of her younger child. Left with only Veda, Mildred determined to become successful in order to give her the best of everything -- and she succeeded brilliantly. But the harder Mildred worked, the more the patrician Veda despised her. Now the moment of truth has come: will Mildred once again sacrifice herself to protect her child... from being convicted of murder' Adapted from the novel by James M. Cain. Academy Award Nominations: 6, including Best Picture, Best (Adapted) Screenplay, Best Supporting Actress--Eve Arden and Ann Blyth. Academy Awards: Best Actress--Joan CrawFord.
Keywords:
Romance
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Suspense
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Tear Jerker
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Thriller
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Betrayal
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Murder
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Film Noir
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Melodrama
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Essential Cinema
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Mildred Pierce- Joan Crawford's Greatest Performance!
Movie Lover: ROBERT VELEZ from
BRONX, NY US -- January, 29, 2018
Mildred Pierce is a classic! Among women's films per se, it might be the best! Joan Crawford, once considered box office poison, turned her whole career around with this film! Joan was so good in this role that she won her only Oscar! Interestingly enough, her tenure at Warner Brothers produced her best films in my opinion! Check out films like
Possessed and The Damned Don't Cry to understand what i am talking about! Mildred Pierce has been revived with a HBO production starring Kate Winslet which is very good but it does not beat the original! Mildred Pierce is Joan Crawford with no mention of any wire hangers!
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