Autumn Leaves (1956)

Autumn Leaves (1956) (DVD) (*)

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Screened, competed or awarded at:
Berlin International Film Festival

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

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

Running Time:
107 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (1.85:1)

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

Movie filmed in 1956 and produced in:
United States ( USA, Canada )

Directed By:
Robert Aldrich

Written By:
Jean Rouverol
Hugo Butler

Actors:
Joan Crawford ..... Millicent Wetherby
Vera Miles ..... Virginia Hanson
Lorne Greene ..... Mr. Hanson
Ruth Donnelly ..... Liz Eckhart
Shepperd Strudwick ..... Dr. Malcolm Couzzens
Selmer Jackson ..... Mr. Wetherby
Maxine Cooper ..... Nurse Evans
Marjorie Bennett ..... Waitress
Frank Gerstle ..... Mr. Ramsey
Leonard Mudie ..... Colonel Hillyer
Maurice Manson ..... Dr. Masterson
Cliff Robertson ..... Burt Hanson

Synopsis:

Few actresses other than Joan Crawford could have successfully pulled off the melodramatic excesses of Autumn Leaves. Though a very attractive fortysomething, Crawford remains aloof from romance until she meets Cliff Robertson, a young man half her age. An ardent and persistent suitor, Robertson finally breaks down her resistence to marriage. After a few weeks of wedded bliss, Crawford is confronted by Vera Miles, who claims to be Robertson's first wife. Miles further insists that Robertson is mentally unbalanced...and his subsequent behavior seems to bear this out. What Crawford doesn't know-but the audience does-is that the real villains of the piece are Miles and her middle-aged lover, Robertson's own father (Lorne Greene). Autumn Leaves works far better on screen than it does in print, thanks to the virtuoso performances of practically everyone in the cast. And, as anyone who's listened to top-40 radio during the past four decades already knows, the film also yielded a hit title song, written by Joseph Kosma, Jacques Prevert, and Johnny Mercer and performed during the credits by Nat King Cole.

Millicent Wetherby is a middle-aged woman whose life is devoid of love and affection. Millicent's solitary existence changes when she encounters Burt Hansen a charismatic younger man. As Burt successfully woos her and wins her hand in marriage, rumors begin to surface that Millicent's newfound beau is in fact a deranged maniac. Things grow even more complicated for Millicent when a woman claiming to be Hansen's first wife shows up. As Burt begins to lose control of himself, Millicent ponders the most radical of actions against her husband.

A lonely spinster is seduced into a romance with a man 20 years younger. Once married, their lives come unhinged when the young man begins to have a psychotic breakdown.

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