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Beyond the Forest

Name: Beyond the Forest
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Released: 1949-10-21
Duration: 97 min
Rating: 6.713

★ 6,7 /10 (54 Votes)

1949 EN 97 min

Overview

Rosa, the self-serving wife of a small-town doctor, gets a better offer when a wealthy big-city man insists she get a divorce and marry him instead. Soon she demonstrates she is capable of rather deplorable acts -- including murder.

Release date

21/10/1949

Votes

Popularity

1.0

Nobody's as good as Bette when she's bad!

Genres

Drama Thriller

Status

Released

Language

Runtime

97 min

Budget

$1,589,000

Revenue

$1,738,000

Bette Davis

Rosa Moline

Joseph Cotten

Doctor Louis Moline

David Brian

Neil Latimer

Ruth Roman

Carol

Minor Watson

Moose

Dona Drake

Jenny

Regis Toomey

Sorren

Sarah Selby

Mildred

Ann Doran

Edith Williams

Bess Flowers

Secretary

Creighton Hale

Townsman with Glasses

Dorothy Vernon

Townswoman

Judith Wood

Waitress

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Joel Allen

Gail Bonney

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Frances Charles

James Craven

June Evans

Hal Gerard

Bobby Henshaw

Hallene Hill

Charles Jordan

Jack Kenney

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Ralph Littlefield

Eve Miller

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Frank Pharr

Buddy Roosevelt

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Sherman Sanders

Mary Servoss

Olan Soule

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Eileen Stevens

Harry Tyler

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Devi Dja

Dancer (uncredited)

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Who better than Ms. Davis to impersonate herself? This is her last film for Warner Brothers so old Harry gave her the screws with this melodramatic pot-boiler which, as it turn out, is an absolute hoot. A plethora of zingers, one-liners and one of the most famous lines in American cinema ("What a dump"), Bette chews up the scenery in her long hair wig and heaving breasts like never before. She's just plain nasty and as Elizabeth Taylor would later describe her to Richard Burton in "WAOVA", she's "discontent" or she's a housewife..."She buys things". Well, the only thing BD buys here is a one …

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You don't like life! Beyond the Forest is directed by King Vidor and written by Lenore J. Coffee and Stuart Engstrand. It stars Bette Davis, Joseph Cotton, David Brian, Ruth Roman, Minor Watson and Regis Toomey. Music is by Max Steiner and cinematography by Robert Burks. Resentful of her small-town life, Rosa Moline (Davis), a married woman, schemes to run off with a rich businessman - and she will do anything to achieve her goals... Whilst not being on the same divisive page as something like Johnny Guitar, King Vidor's picture treads the same pathway to claims of camp and feverish s…

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