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The Cobweb

  • 19551955
  • PassedPassed
  • 2h 14m
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6.3/10
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Lauren Bacall, Charles Boyer, Lillian Gish, Richard Widmark, and Gloria Grahame in The Cobweb (1955)
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At a private psychiatric clinic, the daily dramas and interactions between the doctors, nurses, administrators, benefactors and patients are accentuated by the personal and family crises of ... Read allAt a private psychiatric clinic, the daily dramas and interactions between the doctors, nurses, administrators, benefactors and patients are accentuated by the personal and family crises of these individuals.At a private psychiatric clinic, the daily dramas and interactions between the doctors, nurses, administrators, benefactors and patients are accentuated by the personal and family crises of these individuals.
IMDb RATING
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1.9K
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    • Vincente Minnelli
    • John Paxton(screenplay)
    • William Gibson(additional dialogue)
  • Stars
    • Richard Widmark
    • Lauren Bacall
    • Charles Boyer
    • Vincente Minnelli
    • John Paxton(screenplay)
    • William Gibson(additional dialogue)
  • Stars
    • Richard Widmark
    • Lauren Bacall
    • Charles Boyer
  • See production, box office & company info
    • 53User reviews
    • 21Critic reviews
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    Gloria Grahame in The Cobweb (1955)
    Charles Boyer and Lillian Gish in The Cobweb (1955)
    Lauren Bacall and Lillian Gish in The Cobweb (1955)
    Lillian Gish in The Cobweb (1955)
    Gloria Grahame in The Cobweb (1955)
    Gloria Grahame in The Cobweb (1955)
    Lillian Gish in The Cobweb (1955)
    Lauren Bacall and Lillian Gish in The Cobweb (1955)
    Susan Strasberg in The Cobweb (1955)
    Richard Widmark and Gloria Grahame in The Cobweb (1955)
    Lauren Bacall and Richard Widmark in The Cobweb (1955)
    Lauren Bacall and Richard Widmark in The Cobweb (1955)

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    Richard Widmark
    Richard Widmark
    • Dr. Stewart 'Mac' McIver
    Lauren Bacall
    Lauren Bacall
    • Meg Faversen Rinehart
    Charles Boyer
    Charles Boyer
    • Dr. Douglas N. Devanal
    Gloria Grahame
    Gloria Grahame
    • Karen McIver
    Lillian Gish
    Lillian Gish
    • Victoria Inch
    John Kerr
    John Kerr
    • Steven W. Holte
    Susan Strasberg
    Susan Strasberg
    • Sue Brett
    Oscar Levant
    Oscar Levant
    • Mr. Capp
    Paul Stewart
    Paul Stewart
    • Dr. Otto Wolff
    Jarma Lewis
    Jarma Lewis
    • Lois Y. Demuth
    Adele Jergens
    Adele Jergens
    • Miss Cobb
    Edgar Stehli
    Edgar Stehli
    • Mr. Holcomb
    Sandy Descher
    Sandy Descher
    • Rosemary McIver
    Bert Freed
    Bert Freed
    • Abe Irwin
    Mabel Albertson
    Mabel Albertson
    • Regina Mitchell-Smyth
    Fay Wray
    Fay Wray
    • Edna Devanal
    Oliver Blake
    Oliver Blake
    • Curly
    Olive Carey
    Olive Carey
    • Mrs. O'Brien - Nurse
      • Vincente Minnelli
      • John Paxton(screenplay)
      • William Gibson(additional dialogue) (novel "The Cobweb")
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    • Trivia
      Marks the return of Lillian Gish to MGM after a 22-year absence. The Cobweb was Lauren Bacall first film for MGM.
    • Goofs
      When Karen (Gloria Grahame) storms into her bedroom and kicks off her shoes, she apparently launches the first one over the walls of the set, as it shoots straight up toward the supposedly low ceiling but never comes down.
    • Quotes

      Steven Holte: Artists are better off dead.

      Karen McIver: Why?

      Steven Holte: People pay more attention to them when they're dead. That's what's so troublesome.

      Karen McIver: Is that what you are, a painter?

      Steven Holte: They said Van Gogh was crazy because he killed himself. He couldn't sell a painting while he was alive, and now they're worth thirty million dollars. They weren't that bad then and they're not that good now, so who's crazy?

    • Connections
      Featured in Point Blank (1967)
    • Soundtracks
      Aufforderung zun Tanz
      (uncredited)

      Written by Carl Maria von Weber (as Carl Maria v. Weber)

    User reviews53

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    4/10
    100% soap; William Gibson drama has library drapes-envy
    Confounding melodrama taken from a William Gibson story, produced by John Houseman and directed by Vincente Minnelli (talk about a bizarre group of chefs!). Richard Widmark heads up posh, upscale rural nervous asylum, where his loose wife battles with self-appointed queen bee Lillian Gish, and Widmark himself gets the straying eye for staff-newcomer Lauren Bacall, who is putting her life back together after the death of her husband and child. Facetious and muddled, set in an indiscriminate time and place, and with a "David and Lisa" love story hidden in the plush morass. Widmark and Bacall do have some good chemistry together, but this script gives them nothing to build on. For precisely an hour, most of the dialogue concerns what to do about the drapes hanging in the library (this thread isn't used as symbolism, rather it's a red herring in a non-mystery!). The picture hopes to show the loggerheads that disparate people come to when they're working in the same profession and everyone thinks their opinion is right, but unfortunately the roundabout way Minnelli unravels this stew is neither informative, enlightening nor entertaining. ** from ****
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    • Grace Kelly--Was She Suppose to Star in "Cobweb"?

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    • Release date
      • November 22, 1955 (Japan)
      • United States
      • English
    • Also known as
      • Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios - 10202 W. Washington Blvd., Culver City, California, USA
    • Production company
      • Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)
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    • 2 hours 14 minutes

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