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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: Unrated
Binding: DVD
EAN: 9786305914716
Format: Black & White, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
ISBN: 6305914710
Label: Delta
Manufacturer: Delta
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Delta
Region Code: 1
Release Date: June 26, 2000
Running Time: 116 minutes
Sales Rank: 103313
Studio: Delta
Theatrical Release Date: July 24, 1946
Editorial Review:
Description:
Barbara Stanwyck is the wonderfully wicked Martha Ivers, a wealthy and dominating woman who controls a small town after inheriting a large family fortune. She lives with her weakling husband, a district attorney running for mayor, played by Kirk Douglas in his feature film debut. Also features Kirk Douglas: On Film documentary.
Amazon.com essential video:
Barbara Stanwyck mesmerizes as a woman with a past, bound by a crime to a husband she despises. Kirk Douglas quickens our collective pulses in his film debut as her disappointing, dipsomaniac spouse, while Van Heflin and Lizabeth Scott bring texture to supporting roles. Everything about this 1946 film noir is intriguing, from Lewis Milestone's direction to Edith Head's costumes to the edgy and troubled characters. It takes a long, hard look at guilt and the consequences of poorly planned actions. Well worth checking out, despite a wretched title. --Rochelle O'Gorman
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Strange is right
Was Kirk Douglas ever more horribly miscast? The man exuded power, decisiveness and self-confidence. I've never come across a tougher-sounding weakling or less convincing alcoholic in any screen presence. Scott just wasn't very good. Nor was Stanwyck. These were unreal, unlived-in performances. Heflin, on the other hand, in spite of the haphazard direction and poorly managed scene-setting, delivered his lines well, in a relaxed, natural and easy manner. He seemed like a professional actor, who knew ... Read More
Rating:  - Fabulous Fluff and We Love It
This is so much fun to watch. Who cares if it isn't Wuthering Heights. Fab 40's stars. Film Noir. Stars who will never be matched. Ever.
Rating:  - Melodrama
Stanwyck parraine Douglas dans ce film très old-class, plus mélodramatique que noir. Pas très original, mais les acteurs sont convaincants. Pourquoi s'en priver?
Rating: - Guilt, alocoholism, murder...a nifty noir
Not only does Kirk Douglas convince in his film debut as smarmy, alcoholic, and weak-willed, but the great Barbara Stanwyck also does her thing as a domineering, dominating one-woman empire, driven by power and, as we see somewhat later in the film, lust.
But guilt is part of the picture too. Stanwyck, in the title role, was responsible when much younger for the demise of her equally domineering aunt, played with gusto by Dame Judith Anderson (before she became a dame--meaning, of course, ... Read More
Rating: - I didn't love this one
...a dark film with everything but the kitchen sink thrown in-scratch that, I think the sink was tossed in there. Honestly, I thought Stanwyck and Douglas's performances were laughable. Douglas looked like he was just happy to be there and I don't know what Stanwyck's problem was. Van Helfin was okay but it's Lizabeth Scott that stole this one. She was the only character that came close to being believable. The young actors in the begining of the film were great, but the adult versions just fell flat. ... Read More
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