What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (50th Anniversary Edition) (2-DVD)
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DVD Details
- Number of Discs: 2
- Rated: Not Rated
- Run Time: 2 hours, 13 minutes
- Video: Black & White
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: October 9, 2012
- Originally Released: 1962
- Label: Warner Home Video
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Bette Davis & Joan Crawford | |
Performer: | Victor Buono, Anna Lee, Maidie Norman, Marjorie Bennett, Dave Willock & Bert Freed | |
Directed by | Robert Aldrich | |
Edited by | Michael Luciano | |
Screenplay by | Lukas Heller | |
Original story by | Henry Farrell | |
Composition by | Frank De Vol | |
Art Direction by | William Glasgow | |
Produced by | Robert Aldrich | |
Director of Photography: | Ernest Haller |
Major Awards:
Academy Awards 1962 -
Best Costume Design (b&w): Not Applicable
Entertainment Reviews:
Aldrich's direction and dynamite performances from the two old troupers make this film an experience.
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Chicago Reader
What so often gets lost about 'Baby Jane' is that it's a real thriller, dark, suspenseful, and intense.
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Flavorwire
...The Bette Davis-Joan Crawford teaming still packs a punch in this onetime surprise hit...
USA Today
Rating: 5/5 --
The on-screen fireworks were reportedly fuelled by off-screen hatred, but the chemistry between the stars is unquestionably hair-raising and upped the Gothic stakes to camp shock levels.
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Radio Times
Rating: 4/5 --
Remains fascinatingly warped: an extended study in decaying flesh, set to a score mordantly trying to break into Hooray for Hollywood.
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Guardian
Rating: 5/5 --
The ultimate camp-Gothic bitchfight. Vastly entertaining.
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Daily Telegraph (UK)
...The leads are suitably poisonous, and the line between life and art blurred as clips from their films are used as the Hudson's own. Creepy...
Total Film
Product Description:
As a child, Jane Hudson (Bette Davis) was a pampered vaudeville star known to the world as Baby Jane while her younger sister, Blanche (Joan Crawford), led a quiet life in her considerable shadow. Decades have passed and now Blanche is a beautiful, talented movie idol and Jane a lowly extra. When a car accident cripples Blanche, binding her to a wheelchair, Jane sees her opportunity for revenge and assumes the role of caretaker. Her newly gained power completes the transformation of the sugar-sweet child star into a nightmarish caricature of Baby Jane. As she does everything she can to make her sister's life a living hell--including feeding Blanche a dead rat and brutally beating her when she tries to phone for help--Jane plots a comeback, aided by shifty musical director Edwin Flagg (Victor Buono).
Director Robert Aldrich (KISS ME DEADLY) composes the strangest and most unsettling film of his career, creating a blueprint for future psycho-thriller filmmakers to follow. Renowned offscreen rivals Davis and Crawford revived their flagging careers with two stunning performances, and Buono received an Academy Award nomination for his supporting role. Creepy, campy, grotesque, and terrifying, the wildly over-the-top WHAT EVER HAPPENED TO BABY JANE' is a disturbing and unforgettable film.
Director Robert Aldrich (KISS ME DEADLY) composes the strangest and most unsettling film of his career, creating a blueprint for future psycho-thriller filmmakers to follow. Renowned offscreen rivals Davis and Crawford revived their flagging careers with two stunning performances, and Buono received an Academy Award nomination for his supporting role. Creepy, campy, grotesque, and terrifying, the wildly over-the-top WHAT EVER HAPPENED TO BABY JANE' is a disturbing and unforgettable film.
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