Mildred Pierce (Criterion Collection) (Blu-ray)
The kind of woman most men want - BUT SHOULDN'T HAVE!
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- Run Time: 1 hours, 51 minutes
- Video: Black & White
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: February 21, 2017
- Originally Released: 1945
- Label: Criterion Collection
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:
4 stars out of 5 -- We're in flashback from murder most foul; Joan nudges the compelling nightmare forward.
Uncut
Rating: 5/5 --
Mildred Pierce is a film that defies typical genre classification for its era.
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FanboyNation.com
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
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
...CASABLANCA'S Michael Curtiz, still the studio's top director at the time, is in peak form...
USA Today
The archetypal Joan Crawford movie.
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Chicago Reader
Rating: 5/5 --
This great film is a more subtle, nuanced beast than expected.
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Little White Lies
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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