Mildred Pierce (1945)

Review: Mildred Pierce (1945)

Director: Michael Curtiz

Cast: Joan Crawford, Jack Carson, Zachary Scott, Eve Arden, Ann Blyth,

Joan Crawford
Joan Crawford
Jack Carson
Jack Carson
Zachary Scott
Zachary Scott
Eve Arden
Eve Arden
Ann Blyth
Ann Blyth

Plot: A hard-working mother inches towards disaster as she divorces her husband and starts a successful restaurant business to support her spoiled daughter.

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Monsters and <i>noir</i> from Criterion

Monsters and noir from Criterion

A classic monster is revived in Kazuki Omori’s Godzilla vs Biollante (1989), while monsters of a more human sort make life hell in a pair of female-centred noirs from 1945, Michael Curtiz’s Mildred Pierce and John M. Stahl’s Leave […]

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