Fog Over Frisco casts Bette Davis as a half sister to Margaret Lindsay. As you might have gathered Lindsay is the good sister and Bette, well Bette's as bad as only Bette can be.
This is a film that would be little remembered were it not for Bette Davis and the full blown performance she gives as a spoiled society girl who works with criminals in laundering stolen securities through her father Arthur Byron's brokerage firm.
Bette tries to drag Lindsay into her criminal work and that's when Lindsay's boyfriend Donald Woods who is a reporter gets his reporter suspicions going.
Sad to say Davis is killed about 45% of the way in the film. Two other people, club owner Irving Pichel and Davis's idiot fiancé Lyle Talbot whom she seduces into her evil web are also killed.
Woods as the reporter gets his roles of fiancé and reporter slightly mixed up especially after the crooks kidnap Lindsay after she discovers Davis's body in the rumble seat of her own car. Why they didn't kill her out right is a mystery to me because they sure weren't squeamish about murder as a cover-up.
Fog Over Frisco is a not well thought out film in many ways. But Davis fans will absolutely love it because this is the Bette we've grown to love and expect.
This is a film that would be little remembered were it not for Bette Davis and the full blown performance she gives as a spoiled society girl who works with criminals in laundering stolen securities through her father Arthur Byron's brokerage firm.
Bette tries to drag Lindsay into her criminal work and that's when Lindsay's boyfriend Donald Woods who is a reporter gets his reporter suspicions going.
Sad to say Davis is killed about 45% of the way in the film. Two other people, club owner Irving Pichel and Davis's idiot fiancé Lyle Talbot whom she seduces into her evil web are also killed.
Woods as the reporter gets his roles of fiancé and reporter slightly mixed up especially after the crooks kidnap Lindsay after she discovers Davis's body in the rumble seat of her own car. Why they didn't kill her out right is a mystery to me because they sure weren't squeamish about murder as a cover-up.
Fog Over Frisco is a not well thought out film in many ways. But Davis fans will absolutely love it because this is the Bette we've grown to love and expect.