Possessed (Blu-ray)
A dazed woman walks the streets of Los Angeles looking for a man named David. After collapsing in a diner, she's taken to the psychiatric ward of a nearby hospital.
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Blu-ray BD-R Details
- ORIGINAL ASPECT RATIO - 1.37:1
- Rated: Not Rated
- Run Time: 1 hours, 48 minutes
- Video: Black & White
- Encoding: Region 0 (Worldwide)
- Released: October 21, 2014
- Originally Released: 1947
- Label: Warner Archive Collection (MOD)
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Joan Crawford & Van Heflin | |
Performer: | Raymond Massey, Geraldine Brooks, Stanley Ridges, Moroni Olsen, John Ridgely, Nana Bryant, Erskine Sanford & Peter Miles | |
Directed by | Curtis Bernhardt | |
Edited by | Rudi Fehr | |
Screenplay by | Silvia Richards & Ranald MacDougall | |
Composition by | Franz Waxman | |
Art Direction by | Anton Grot | |
Produced by | Jerry Wald | |
Director of Photography: | Joseph A. Valentine | |
Executive Production by | Jack L. Warner |
Entertainment Reviews:
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.
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Daily Telegraph (Australia)
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
Rating: B- --
Too heavy with German stimmung.
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Ozus' World Movie Reviews
Rating: 3/4 --
Possessed does have a few very good insights into the self-abasing aggressiveness of unrequited love.
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Slant Magazine
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.
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TIME Magazine
Description by OLDIES.com:
Academy Award winner Joan Crawford earned another Best Actress nomination for her tour-de-force performance in Possessed which opens with Crawford portraying a woman found wandering the streets of Los Angeles. Taken to a mental hospital, she weaves a harrowing tale of insanity, murder and the passion by which provides the basis for the films apt title. Louise Howells (Crawford) psychiatrist learns that she is a nurse hired to care for a dying woman and that she rekindled a former romance with her patient's neighbor, David Sutton (Van Heflin). But does the suicide of her charge and rejection by the man she loves drive Howell to madness -- and murder? Or do they? Is Howell's harrowing story true or the misperception of a deranged mind? Is Howell guilty of murder or an innocent victim of something far more sinister?
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- Sales Rank: 43,772
- UPC: 888574055714
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