Reunited with Wyler, Davis excels with another Oscar-nominated performance as a coldly calculating hussy under suspicion of murder. Accused of killing an old family friend, the Davis character claims that he tried to attack her and that she acted in self-defence. Husband Herbert Marshall remains loyal even as the whole unsavoury truth comes to light. Gale Sondergaard provides memorable support as the dead man’s widow in a thrilling version of the sensational Somerset Maugham play. NEW PRINT
A magnificent adaptation of the Lillian Hellman Broadway hit with Oscar-nominated Bette Davis in her element as the scheming, heartless Regina Giddens who’ll stop at nothing to get what she wants and if her husband wants to stand in her way, then he’ll suffer the consequences. The final collaboration between Davis and her director/lover Wyler remains an electrifying screen version of an American classic. NEW PRINT