Born To Be Bad (1950)
Born To Be Bad (1950)
DVD5 | VIDEO_TS | NTSC | 4:3 | 720x480 | 5200 kbps | 4.6Gb
Audio: English AC3 2.0 @ 192 Kbps
01:34:00 | USA | Drama, Film-Noir
DVD5 | VIDEO_TS | NTSC | 4:3 | 720x480 | 5200 kbps | 4.6Gb
Audio: English AC3 2.0 @ 192 Kbps
01:34:00 | USA | Drama, Film-Noir
Christabel fools everyone with her sweet exterior including her cousin Donna and Donna's wealthy fiancйe Curtis. The only one who sees through her facade is Nick, a rugged writer who loves her anyway. Christabel also loves Nick, but she loves Curtis' money more. After convincing Curtis that Donna is only interested in him for his money, she tricks Curtis into marrying her. Of course, she still dallies with Nick on the side.
Director: Nicholas Ray
Cast: Joan Fontaine, Robert Ryan, Zachary Scott, Joan Leslie, Mel Ferrer, Harold Vermilyea, Virginia Farmer, Kathleen Howard, Dick Ryan, Bess Flowers, Joy Hallward, Hazel Boyne, Irving Bacon, Gordon Oliver, Jack Chefe, Jan Hedges, Al Murphy, Frank Arnold, Barry Brooks, Ann Burr, James Conaty, Helen Crozier, Homer Dickenson, Don Dillaway, Herbert Evans, Avery Graves, Sam Harris, Bobby Johnson, Ray Johnson, Peggy Leon
Born To Be Bad (1950)
Born To Be Bad (1950)
One of the most oft-revived of the pre-Technicolor Nicholas Ray efforts, Born to Be Bad offers us the spectacle of Joan Fontaine portraying a character described as "a cross between Lucrezia Borgia and Peg O' My Heart". For the benefit of her wealthy husband Zachary Scott and his family, Fontaine adopts a facade of wide-eyed sweetness. Bored with her hubby, she inaugurates a romance with novelist Robert Ryan. All her carefully crafted calculations come acropper when both men discover that she's a bitch among bitches. She might have gotten away with all her machinations, but the censors said uh-uh. Originally slated for filming in 1946, with Henry Fonda scheduled to play the Robert Ryan part, Born to Bad was cancelled, then resurfaced as Bed as Roses in 1948, this time with Barbara Bel Geddes in the Fontaine role. RKO head Howard Hughes' decision to replace Bel Geddes with the more bankable Fontaine was one of the reasons that producer Dore Schary left RKO in favor of MGM. Based on Anne Parrish's novel All Kneeling, Born to Be Bad is so overheated at times that it threatens to lapse into self-parody; though this never happens, the film was the basis for one of TV star Carol Burnett's funniest and most devastating movie takeoffs, Raised to be Rotten.
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Born To Be Bad (1950)
Born To Be Bad (1950)
Born To Be Bad (1950)
