An American drama directed by George Cukor, starring Joan Crawford.
A woman in New York has friends at a clothing store and a husband. She learns from her friends that her husband is cheating on her. She gets a divorce and moves to a lesbian farm in Reno for a little while. When she moves back to New York, she hears juicy gossip about the homewrecker who married her husband.
This was pretty boring, except for the ending. Using an entirely female cast with a plot that involves marriage and affairs was a unique idea. The line that describes the film best is spoken at 2 hours and 12 minutes: "There's a name for you ladies, but it isn't used in high society... ...outside of a kennel". I was watching the whole time thinking that this should have been called The Bitches and here comes a character in the film to put my thought into the perfect words. The women stab backs and gossip through 2 hours in black and white video. In the middle, there is a color scene of an interminable fashion show. My biggest disappointment about this film was no female anatomy points! Overall, you're better off just reading the line of dialogue and skipping the movie. I rate it poor.
An American drama directed by Lewis Milestone, starring Joan Crawford.A ship is held up because of weather conditions and the passengers all have to stay at a general store on an island. Two of those passengers are an insane priest and a wild and free party girl. The priest sinks his bible-thumping claws into this young woman and brainwashes her with religious dogma.Being a devout atheist, I liked the plot and the characters very much. The priest played his role very much like most religious nuts and the poor girl was clearly tormented past her breaking point. Joan Crawford was a real scorcher in this film. The style and production value were absolutely prehistoric and left much to be desired. I'm rating it good anyway because the ending (which I'm not spoiling) was the way that I would want it.
An American western directed by Nicholas Ray, starring Joan Crawford.A woman opens a casino in an area where a railroad will soon go through and hires a musician to play guitar there. The locals dislike the businesswoman and the guitar player turns out to be a gunslinger.Standard western, say thankee. The characters and plot were alright as well as the pacing and the style. I'm not concerned about production value on films from this era because it would be a detriment to their ratings. The guitar playing was so fake that a non-guitarist could tell he was faking and an audio track was being played. There was also a fake background scene in which the characters were obviously standing in front of a backdrop. What I saw was a decent western and I'm rating it adequate.
