If you can't draw the parallels between this film and the 2 I mention then you need to do some research and see this film (from a book) is ripped right from the the news of the day with a pinch of an old Hollywood classic thrown in.
An aspiring artist from a well to do family is always being told what to do by her domineering mother. She loves men and and isn't ashamed of showing it. One day she meets a war hero at her gallery opening and takes a liking to him. He meets the mother and she likes him but his impression of her quickly changes as she shows her true colors. Instead of the big wedding the mother wants, they both sneak off and get married. The next day he's off to the war for a year. She has a baby and from this he has to work somehow. He's idealistic and wants no help from the mother but she intervenes without him knowing so he'll work for her...something he doesn't want. Years of this life of alcohol and getting whatever you want has wore him down and his wife feels the same. She goes back to her sex with other men ways and he's had it. The daughter they have is impressionable and it affects her greatly. Segway to the crux of the film...the daughter murders her mothers boyfriend. Of course there's more to it than that. Turns out this 15 year old was sleeping with her mother boyfriend all along.
This film was a soap opera all the way though. It wasn't badly made but it should or could have just been a TV movie. The content is shocking to me for it's day. A 15 year old girl kills her mother's boyfriend who she was sleeping with also. Sound Familiar? A mix of Mildred Pierce and Lana Turner's real life.
With the exception of the redone story, my main issue is Mike Conners. He was made for TV, and in this, it shows. He's just not movie material to me. It's obvious why he was more successful in TV and not in film. Bette Davis plays a character she's done before. A mother figure or leading lady figure who dominates everyone in the house. Susan Hayward does a grand job but it was all for naught in this rehash from the past.
Not a bad film folks, it's just that I've seen it before in other incarnations. Watch it to see how similar it looks and feels to a modern day Soap Opera.
An aspiring artist from a well to do family is always being told what to do by her domineering mother. She loves men and and isn't ashamed of showing it. One day she meets a war hero at her gallery opening and takes a liking to him. He meets the mother and she likes him but his impression of her quickly changes as she shows her true colors. Instead of the big wedding the mother wants, they both sneak off and get married. The next day he's off to the war for a year. She has a baby and from this he has to work somehow. He's idealistic and wants no help from the mother but she intervenes without him knowing so he'll work for her...something he doesn't want. Years of this life of alcohol and getting whatever you want has wore him down and his wife feels the same. She goes back to her sex with other men ways and he's had it. The daughter they have is impressionable and it affects her greatly. Segway to the crux of the film...the daughter murders her mothers boyfriend. Of course there's more to it than that. Turns out this 15 year old was sleeping with her mother boyfriend all along.
This film was a soap opera all the way though. It wasn't badly made but it should or could have just been a TV movie. The content is shocking to me for it's day. A 15 year old girl kills her mother's boyfriend who she was sleeping with also. Sound Familiar? A mix of Mildred Pierce and Lana Turner's real life.
With the exception of the redone story, my main issue is Mike Conners. He was made for TV, and in this, it shows. He's just not movie material to me. It's obvious why he was more successful in TV and not in film. Bette Davis plays a character she's done before. A mother figure or leading lady figure who dominates everyone in the house. Susan Hayward does a grand job but it was all for naught in this rehash from the past.
Not a bad film folks, it's just that I've seen it before in other incarnations. Watch it to see how similar it looks and feels to a modern day Soap Opera.