The Damned Don't Cry | Joan Crawford, David Brian | SUSPENSE, DRAMA, MOBSTERS, GREAT ACTING & THE...

The Damned Don't Cry | Joan Crawford, David Brian | The film is alive with the sound of Joan

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The Damned Don't Cry

	The Damned Don't Cry Joan Crawford, David Brian Warner Home Video, 2005 average customer review:based on 19 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

It's a man's world. And Ethel Whitehead learns there's only one way for a woman to survive in it: be as tempting as a cupcake and as tough as a 75-cent steak. In the first of three collaborations with director Vincent Sherman, Joan Crawford brings hard-boiled glamour and simmering passion to the role of Ethel, who moves from the wrong side of the tracks to a mobster's mansion to high society one man at a time. Some of those men love her. Some use her. And one a high-rolling racketeer abuses her. When the racketeer murders his rival in Ethel?s swanky living room, she flees a sure murder rap right back to the poverty she thought she had escaped. And this time there may not be a man to pick up the pieces of her shattered life.

DVD Features:Audio Commentary:Commentary by Director Vincent ShermanFeaturette:New Featurette The Crawford Formula: An Interview with Director Vincent Sherman

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SUSPENSE, DRAMA, MOBSTERS, GREAT ACTING & THE BEAUTIFUL JOAN CRAWFORD ~ A MOVIE THAT HAS EVERYTHING!!!!!

I just love this fast-paced, action drama. Sexy, Joan Crawford, Handsome, David Brian, et al., perform brilliantly. The dialog is very cleverly well-written, and the sound and picture is of very good quality. A must see the the Joan Crawford and Film Noir fans!!!!!

The film is alive with the sound of Joan

This is a one woman show although it clearly was not meant that way. There are several good performances here besides Crawfords. You can feel she's in a battle to survive the studio system and age! She dominates every scene and it's great fun. For melodrama it's quite a good and intense movie. Crawford leaves her teeth marks on everyone and everything. Good supporting cast and that's all they are!

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Joan Crawford ON FIRE!

She's got a forked tongue and a closet full of ankle-strapped platforms, and baby you'd better believe she's ready to use them. Joan never looked more androgynous or menacing; what a joy it is to watch her dominate the fops around her in this gem from the ultra-conservative postwar era. The story is a wicked little yarn about a no-luck dame toughening up and taking what she needs out of life by whatever means necessary.

The best scene has to be when Joan arrives at the boss's office wearing a super-trashy skirt suit and a pair chunky-heeled sandals. He asks her what kind of perfume she's wearing and she says something like "Temptress" to which he opens up the window to air the room out. You just don't get stuff like that in movies these days, folks.

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Crawford formula

Not long after "Mildred Pierce", Joan Crawford starred in this gangster film about a woman who grew up with nothing, got married to a mean guy, had a child who died ... then decided to pursue a better life for herself at any price. Sounds a little like Mildred Pierce, but that's OK because Joan did these dramatic roles extremely well. And who could blame her for cashing in on the success of Mildred Pierce.

"the Damned Don't Cry" is an interesting film for any Crawford fan because she is once again very watchable in every scene and not just for her fine acting. Her face is captivating. As she grew older, her face became more prominent ... those big eyes, those big eyelashes. She almost became a parody of herself.

Crawford was not classically trained yet always delivered fine performances every time. This film is high up at the top, and is deserving of a place in your collection.

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"You're asking for trouble, aren't you?"

THE DAMNED DON'T CRY reunited Joan Crawford with her "Mildred Pierce" producer Jerry Wald. In another of her trademark noir roles, Ms Crawford played a woman who climbs up from the gutter only to discover that life is far more dangerous at the top.

Ethel Whitehead (Joan Crawford) is a frumpy working-class housewife with an unappreciative husband (Richard Egan). When their son is killed by a speeding car, Ethel packs her bags and leaves for a better life. Ethel's desire to have money and power only lands her in the unsavoury clutches of dangerous mobster George Castleman (David Brian).

This is one of my favourite Crawford vehicles. She's ideally cast as Ethel Whitehead/Lorna Hansen Forbes, a woman caught up in the glamour of wealth but careless in the choice of men she keeps company with. This film was based on a story by Gertrude Walker (and loosely modelled after notorious 1940s gangland moll Virginia Hill's relationship with Bugsy Siegel).

Crawford preferred working with male actors who weren't as famous as she was, and in THE DAMNED DON'T CRY, the main leads are taken by B-movie players David Brian, Steve Cochran and Kent Smith--each manages to hold his own with 'La Crawford'. Selena Royle ("The Harvey Girls") also has a good role as Ethel's influential society friend Patricia Longworth.

This is classic Film Noir, with it's moody shadowed lighting, killer gowns and zingy dialogue. Certainly this captures Joan Crawford at the height of her glamour, and fans wouldn't have it any other way.

The DVD includes the featurette "The Crawford Formula: Real and Reel", audio commentary with director Vincent Sherman, and the trailer. (Single-sided, dual-layer disc).

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