Synopsis :
Tennessee Williams' 27 Wagons Full of Cotton was the basis for this steamy sex seriocomedy. Karl Malden stars as the doltish owner of a Southern cotton gin. He is married to luscious teenager Carroll Baker, who steadfastly refuses to sleep with her husband until she reaches the age of 20. Her nickname is "Baby Doll", a cognomen she does her best to live up to by lying in a crib-like bed and sucking her thumb. Enter crafty Sicilian Eli Wallach (who, like supporting actor Rip Torn, makes his film debut herein), who covets both Malden's wife and business. Malden's jealously sets fire to Wallach's business, compelling Wallach to try to claim Baby Doll as "compensation." Heavily admonished for its supposed filthiness in 1956 (it was condemned by the Legion of Decency, which did more harm to the Legion than to the film), Baby Doll seems a model of decorum today--so much so that it is regularly shown on the straight-laced American Movie Classics cable service. Hal Erickson
Title : Baby Doll (1956)
Directed by Elia Kazan
Duration : 114 min.
Subtitles : Portuguese
Audio in English
Genres : Crime
Countries : USA
Showing posts with label Elia Kazan. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Elia Kazan. Show all posts
Wednesday, March 13, 2024
Baby Doll (1956) Directed by Elia Kazan | VIDEO (ISO)
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)
The Birdcage Inn (Palan Taemun, 1998) Directed by Kim Ki-Duk | VIDEO (MKV)
Synopsis : Birdcage Inn is a drama about experiences moulding people's lives. After the clearing of the red light districts in Seoul, a ...
-
In the year 1783, a mystic called Dr. Caligari, wandered through the cities of northern Italy with a somnambulist named Cesare, performing ...
-
Synopsis : The biggest-budgeted movie ever produced at Germany's UFA, Fritz Lang's gargantuan Metropolis consumed resources that wou...
-
Synopsis : The German The Haunted Castle (Schloss Vogelrod) has been described as director F.W. Murnau's "warm-up" for his su...