Beyond the Forest (1949) ( Rosa Moline )

Beyond the Forest (1949) (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: Rosa Moline
Screened, competed or awarded at:
Oscar Academy Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
Italian ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )

Product Origin/Format:
Italy ( PAL/Region 0 )

Running Time:
89 min

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Photo Gallery
Scene Access
Black & White

Movie filmed in 1949 and produced in:
United States ( USA, Canada )

Directed By:
King Vidor

Written By:
Lenore J. Coffee
Stuart Engstrand

Actors:
Bette Davis ..... Rosa Moline
Joseph Cotten ..... Doctor Louis Moline
David Brian ..... Neil Latimer
Ruth Roman ..... Carol Lawson
Minor Watson ..... Moose Lawson
Dona Drake ..... Jenny
Regis Toomey ..... Sorren
Sarah Selby ..... Mildred Sorren

Synopsis:

Of all the no-good women that Bette Davis has portrayed in her numerous elaborate demonstrations of the deadliness of the female sex, she has never done any more unpleasant nor more grotesque than the creature she plays in the Warners' 'Beyond the Forest,' which came to the Strand yesterday. This time she's not only a mean one: she's a callous and calculated fiend whose flamboyant selfishness and cruelties are on a virtually extra-human plane. As a matter of fact, she is so monstrous-so ghoulishly picturesque-that her representation often slips off into laughable caricature.

In Loyalton, Wisconsin, a sawmill pumps out smoke daily, which drives anti-heroine Rosa Moline (Davis) crazy. Dissatisfied, sexually deprived, she shoots a porcupine right out of a tree just for fun. There's a dark Faulknerian tone to the backwoods goings-on, and Davis dominates the film with her exhilarating negativity, her pride and loser's fury. Vidor doesn't like her 'good' husband (Joseph Cotten), who proudly proclaims his mediocrity, and he seems increasingly intrigued by the gorgon-like Rosa, who doesn't belong in Loyalton but looks hopelessly gauche in a big city, Chicago, where she runs away to be with her lover and winds up humiliated.

Rosa Moline is bored with life in a small town. She loves Chicago industrialist Neil Latimer who has a hunting lodge nearby. Rosa squeezes her husband's patients to pay their bills so she can visit Chicago; her husband's patience is also tried: he tells her to go and never come back. Once there, Neil tells her he doesn't want her. Back home and pregnant, Neil shows up and now wants her. The caretaker at Neil's lodge threatens to reveal her pregnancy...

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