Della ( Fatal Confinement )

Della (DVD) (*)

$31.99

Original Title: Fatal Confinement
Language Selections:
English ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )

Product Origin/Format:
United Kingdom ( PAL/Region 2 )

Running Time:
65 min

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Scene Access

Movie filmed in 1964 and produced in:
United States ( USA, Canada )

Directed By:
Robert Gist

Written By:
Richard Alan Simmons

Actors:
Paul Burke ..... Barney Stafford
Charles Bickford ..... Hugh Stafford
Joan Crawford ..... Della Chappell
Richard Carlson ..... David Stafford
Diane Baker ..... Jenny Chappell
Robert Sampson ..... Joel Stafford
Otto Kruger ..... Walter Garrick
James Stapleton ..... Chris Stafford
Marianna Case ..... Addie Stafford
Sara Taft ..... Mrs. Kyle
Walter Woolf King ..... Sam Jordon
Barney Phillips ..... Eric Kline
Voltaire Perkins ..... Herb Foster
Richard Bull ..... Mark Nodella
Jan Shepard ..... Secretary

Synopsis:

Joan Crawford plays the daughter of the town's founder, an uncompromising woman who rules her home with an iron fist and exerts her influence over the town she owns so much of. The story finds a young lawyer attempting to get Della to sell a parcel of land to a government contractor who will bring lots of jobs to the town. He's invited to visit her home in the middle of the night and discovers her and her daughter living in a nocturnal world, sleeping during the day and going about their business during the night hours. He finds the daughter intriguing and is lured into their world with subsequent visits. The relationship eventually takes on tragic proportions. While not the most famous film in Ms. Crawford's career, she looks fantastic in it, and it does have some fun twists and turns. Also in the cast is Diane Baker in her second turn as Joan's daughter (Straitjacket) and her third time working with Ms. Crawford (The Best of Everything) and Paul Burke, fresh from his portrayal of Lyon Burke in Valley of the Dolls.

Della Chappell (Joan Crawford) is a very wealthy and incredibly reclusive woman. When a big company wants the land Della lives on, the town sends out Barney Stafford (Paul Burke) to talk to her. She invites Barney over to negotiate the proposal. Barney soon takes a liking to Della's equally reclusive daughter Jenny Chappell (Diane Baker). After spending some time with Jenny, he realizes that Della has a dark secret, one that keeps them from the outside world.

This product was added to our catalog on Sunday 21 October, 2012.