Rosa Moline is bored with life in a small town. She loves Chicago industrialist Neil Latimer who has a hunting lodge nearby. Rosa squeezes her husband's patients to pay their bills so she ...
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Cast
| Complete credited cast: | |||
| Bette Davis | ... | Rosa Moline | |
| Joseph Cotten | ... | Doctor Louis Moline | |
| David Brian | ... | Neil Latimer | |
| Ruth Roman | ... | Carol Lawson | |
| Minor Watson | ... | Moose Lawson | |
| Dona Drake | ... | Jenny | |
| Regis Toomey | ... | Sorren | |
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Sarah Selby | ... | Mildred Sorren |
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Rosa Moline is bored with life in a small town. She loves Chicago industrialist Neil Latimer who has a hunting lodge nearby. Rosa squeezes her husband's patients to pay their bills so she can visit Chicago; her husband's patience is also tried: he tells her to go and never come back. Once there, Neil tells her he doesn't want her. Back home and pregnant, Neil shows up and now wants her. The caretaker at Neil's lodge threatens to reveal her pregnancy... Written by Ed Stephan <stephan@cc.wwu.edu>
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Country:
USALanguage:
EnglishRelease Date:
21 October 1949 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
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Box Office
Gross USA:
$1,300,000, 31 December 1949Company Credits
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Mono (RCA Sound System)Color:
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Moose: I'm not playing God exactly... but I'm on his side.
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(uncredited)
Music by Fred Fisher (1922)
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In some parts of the US the scene in which Rosa induces a miscarriage by jumping from an embankment were cut. See more »Goofs
Near the end, as Rosa prepares to catch the Chicago train, the camera dollies backwards, away from her, and as it does, the equipment bangs into her closet door, causing the clothes hanging on it to sway back-and-forth. See more »Quotes
Rosa Moline: What makes you think you can play God?Moose: I'm not playing God exactly... but I'm on his side.
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The film begins after the opening credits with this warning title: This is the story of evil. Evil is headstrong - is puffed up. For our souls sake, it is salutory for us to view it in all it's ugly nakedness once in a while. Thus may we know how those who deliver themselves over to it end up like the scorpion, in a mad frenzy stinging themselves to eternal death. See more »Soundtracks
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Music by Fred Fisher (1922)
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...in fact, a deeply disturbing film! What's most disturbing is that back in those days, people were supposed to be shocked and disgusted with the character Rosa Moline, (needless to say, so brilliantly acted by Davis) but today, I'm sure a lot of viewers would sympathise with her desperation to get out of the confines of a dead-end life. From the beginning, we learn of her hatred for life- her husband being a doctor is a sick irony!
If morbid humour is your thing, then you'll love this film. Especially when she says things along the lines of "the only people who are doing a worthwhile job in this town are the undertakers who carry the dead out of here". The only flaw in this film, is the ending. Not enough explanation is given. Give it a try.