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- Release Date: 1949
- Runtime: 97 min
- Genre: Drama, Thriller, Film-Noir
- Starring: Bette Davis, Joseph Cotten, David Brian, Ruth Roman ... see all
- Director: King Vidor
- Plot: Rosa Moline is bored with life in a small town. She loves Chicago industrialist Neil Latimer who has a hunting lodge nearby. Rosa squeezes her husband's patients to pay their... Read more
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amazing
Nov 12, 2002
spencerdouglass - imdb.com
Nov 12, 2002spencerdouglass - imdb.com
This really is a great movie. The direction; the dialogue; and of course Davis. She pouts and prances through the whole thing like a caged lion. The ending is wonderful and fitting; the kind of thing that wouldn't fly in today's... Full review
Bette Davis kindles trash into an inferno
Feb 25, 2002
bmacv - imdb.com
Feb 25, 2002bmacv - imdb.com
Beyond The Forest drags around a reputation as one of the all-time stinkers, a reputation that's far from deserved but not hard to understand. This is the movie whose name Martha, in Edward Albee's play Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf, can't... Full review
More than camp
Aug 15, 2001
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Aug 15, 2001olet - imdb.com
While there ARE overdone and exaggerated moments in this film, it is also a near masterpiece! Bette Davis plays Rosa Moline, a small town strumpet who wants more than her hick doctor hubby can provide. Bette's explosive performance is among the... Full review
Hilarious, campy stinker.
Oct 20, 1999
boy-13 - imdb.com
Oct 20, 1999boy-13 - imdb.com
Interestingly, as Bette Davis' final film for Warner Bros., her unhappiness with the studio after a prolonged and tomultuous run really shows through in this role. Her disgust with the domineering studio adds to the bleakness of this hilariously bad stinker... Full review
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