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Beyond the Forest is the supreme melodrama, in which woman breaks free of a series of gendered imprisonments. Davis’s indelibly venomous and slatternly Mildred in Of Human Bondage. Davis’s Regina Giddens contemplates her appearance in The Little Foxes.
Beyond the Forest (1949) This was a melodramatic, far-fetched, high-camp classic - and also a fine example of film noir from director King Vidor, with an impressive bombastic, Oscar-nominated musical score by Max Steiner.
Beyond the Forest (1949) is a melodramatic, far-fetched high-camp classic and also a fine example of film noir from director King Vidor, with an impressive bombastic, Oscar-nominated musical score by Max Steiner - the film's sole Academy Award nod.
Beyond the Forest is a 1949 American film noir directed by King Vidor, and featuring Bette Davis, Joseph Cotten, David Brian, and Ruth Roman. The screenplay is written by Lenore Coffee based on a novel by Stuart Engstrand.
Written off as a "camp classic" for years, BEYOND THE FOREST has been reassessed of late: Bette Davis tires of life married to a small-town doctor, so she takes off to Chicago for an affair, hopping the most monstrously phallic train in film history. Her frenzied performance is met on the other side of the camera by director King Vidor, who ...
Labeled by one reviewer as “King Vidor’s most demented film from his most frenzied period”, this steamy backwoods melodrama — starring a too-old Bette Davis “done up for all the world like Jennifer Jones”, in black wig and red lipstick — has achieved near camp-classic status in recent years. Davis’s personal scorn for this film ...
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Mar 27, 2017 · While some of both Davis and Crawford’s work could arguably be described as camp (for the former, King Vidor’s Beyond the Forest; for the latter, later-era films such as Strait-Jacket and...
