Possessed

In all your life you've seen no portrayals to match the thrill of the unquenchable love of Joan Crawford for Van Heflin in "Possessed"!
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DVD Details

  • Includes Original Theatrical Trailer
  • Commentary by Film Historian Drew Casper
  • New Featurette Possessed: The Quintessential Film Noir
  • Subtitled in English, French, & Spanish
  • Rated: Not Rated
  • Run Time: 1 hours, 48 minutes
  • Video: Black & White
  • Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
  • Released: June 14, 2005
  • Originally Released: 1947
  • Label: Warner Home Video

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AUDIENCE SCORE
User Ratings: 1,226
Possessed faintly echoes Lost Weekend, Seventh Veil - and has one camera shot straight from Stairway to Heaven. It is, however, a powerful and effective document - from which the susceptible will totter. Full Review
Daily Telegraph (Australia)
Apr 11, 2019
Rating: 3/5 -- It's a role that Crawford was born to play, but ultimately the film is too campy to be memorable.
Filmcritic.com
Jun 12, 2005
Rating: 3/4 -- Possessed does have a few very good insights into the self-abasing aggressiveness of unrequited love. Full Review
Slant Magazine
Jun 7, 2005
The weaknesses in this unusual movie do not greatly matter beside the fact that a lot of people who have a lot to give are giving it all they've got. Full Review
TIME Magazine
Mar 2, 2018
...Crawford called this her most demanding role, and her histrionics got her an Oscar nomination...
USA Today
Dec 13, 1991
Rating: B- -- Too heavy with German stimmung. Full Review
Ozus' World Movie Reviews
Dec 19, 2003

Description by OLDIES.com:

She loves him when he goes away for months. She loves him when he refuses to marry her. But when callow David Sutton chooses to marry someone else, Louise Howell's love for him takes a darker turn. Giver her a gun and she'll love him to death.

Joan Crawford reteams with producer Jerry Wald of her Academy Award-winning Mildred Pierce and claims a 1947 Best Actress Oscar nomination for her portrayal of tempestuous, mentally unstable Louise. "'I love you' is such an inadequate way of saying I love you," Louis says. "It doesn't quite describe how much it hurts sometimes." With Crawford at her film-noir-queen best, be assured it hurts so good.

Product Description:

The story centers around a woman who is driven mad by her own kind of obsessive love that ultimately ruins her life. Academy Award Nominations: Best Actress-Joan CrawFord.

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  • Sales Rank: 119,591
  • UPC: 012569673083
  • Shipping Weight: 0.25/lbs (approx)
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