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Mildred Pierce (1945) (Criterion Collection)

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Melodrama casts noirish shadows in this portrait of maternal sacrifice from the Hollywood master Michael Curtiz. Its iconic performance by Joan Crawford as Mildred, a single mother hell-bent on freeing her children from the stigma of economic hardship, solidified Crawford’s career comeback and gave the actor her only Oscar. But as Mildred pulls herself up by the bootstraps, first as an unflappable waitress and eventually as the well-heeled owner of a successful restaurant chain, the ingratitude of her materialistic firstborn (a diabolical Ann Blyth) becomes a venomous serpent’s tooth, setting in motion an endless cycle of desperate overtures and heartless recriminations. Recasting James M. Cain’s rich psychological novel as a murder mystery, this bitter cocktail of blind parental love and all-American ambition is both unremittingly hard-boiled and sumptuously emotional.

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Director Michael Curtiz
Actor Joan Crawford, Jack Carson, Eve Arden, Zachary Scott
Label Sony Pictures
 
Genre Drama
Content Blu-ray
Publication date 27.02.2017
Edition Criterion Collection
Audio English
Year of production 1945
Original title Mildred Pierce
Version UK Version
Region code B
 

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