Mildred Pierce [VHS]

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	Actor(s):	Joan Crawford Jack Carson Zachary Scott Eve Arden Ann Blyth
	Video by:	MGM (Video & DVD)
	Sales Rank:	101946

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Actor(s):
Joan Crawford
Jack Carson
Zachary Scott
Eve Arden
Ann Blyth

Creators:
Albert Maltz (Writer)
Catherine Turney (Writer)
James M. Cain (Writer)
Louise Randall Pierson (Writer)
Margaret Buell Wilder (Writer)
Margaret Gruen (Writer)
Ranald MacDougall (Writer)

Director(s):
Michael Curtiz

Recording label: MGM (Video & DVD)
EAN: 9786301973410
Binding: VHS Tape
ISBN: 6301973410
Format: Black & White, Closed-captioned, NTSC,
Release Date: 1994-11-29
Universal product code (UPC): 027616174239
Number of discs: 1
Audience rating: NR (Not Rated)

Amazon.com
For a full dose of pure, unfiltered Joan Crawford, look no further than this slab of scorching film noir. Crawford is in her element as the heroine of James M. Cain's pulp-fiction classic, a ditched wife and mother who is forced to become a waitress. On the strength of Crawford's steely willpower (and maybe those intimidating wide-wing shoulder pads), she constructs an empire of eateries, only to be disappointed by her rotten daughter (Ann Blyth) and a ferret-faced new husband (Zachary Scott). Director Michael Curtiz (Casablanca) whips up a storm of atmosphere, and the script is a series of tartly written exchanges. The best lines go to perennial wisecracker Eve Arden, as Crawford's acid-tongued pal--she earned her only Oscar nomination for the role. Commenting on the ungrateful daughter, Arden says, "Alligators have the right idea. They eat their young." Crawford herself took home the best actress Oscar, and the film was a triumphant personal comeback: her longtime studio MGM had released her from her contract before Mildred Pierce came along. Is this great acting? (Pauline Kael called it "heavy breathing.") Whatever Joan Crawford is doing in this movie, it's movie presence at its most formidable. --Robert Horton

Running time: 111 minutes