Beyond the Forest

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Beyond the Forest (1949)

10/21/1949 (US) Drama, Thriller 1h 37m

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Nobody's as good as Bette when she's bad!

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Rosa, the self-serving wife of a small-town doctor, gets a better offer when a wealthy big-city man insists she get a divorce and marry him instead. Soon she demonstrates she is capable of rather deplorable acts -- including murder.

King Vidor

Director
Stuart Engstrand

Novel
Lenore J. Coffee

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Bette Davis

Rosa Moline
Joseph Cotten

Doctor Louis Moline
David Brian

Neil Latimer
Ruth Roman

Carol
Minor Watson

Moose
Dona Drake

Jenny
Regis Toomey

Sorren
Sarah Selby

Mildred
Ann Doran

Edith Williams
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A review by John Chard

70%

Written by John Chard on March 24, 2019

You don't like life!

Beyond the Forest is directed by King Vidor and written by Lenore J. Coffee and Stuart Engstrand. It stars Bette Davis, Joseph Cotton, David Brian, Ruth Roman, Minor Watson and Regis Toomey. Music is by Max Steiner and cinematography by Robert Burks.

Resentful of her small-town life, Rosa Moline (Davis), a married woman, schemes to run off with a rich businessman - and she will do anything to achieve her goals...

Whilst not being on the same divisive page as something like Johnny Guitar, King Vidor's picture treads the same pathway to claims of camp and feverish st... read the rest.

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