In This Our Life

Bette Davis is a whirlwind and worth the price of admission. Rest of the movie not really my thing

Davis is good but the rest was a bit of a slog

Viewed February 3, 2020. Gets a lot better once it shifts into being solely about Bette Davis' sociopath. Nobody could play a villain quite like Bette Davis. Her ingenue here is quite different from the matriarch of The Little Foxes, yet both are terrifying portraits of cold-blooded people - such range!

Em honra dos 103 anos completados hoje de Olivia de Havilland filme #1. Esse filme é excepcional porque é um embate entre a velha guarda aproveitadora capitalista mimada contra o progressismo dos direitos civis travestido e vendido como embate entre irmãs. Não esperaria menos do grande John Huston. HDTVRip no MakingOff.

I know she didn't like this role, but I always appreciate a destructive Bette Davis. The story makes her a little too obvious for the drama of the poor black boy to do anything. It's more about her insane lack of empathy which takes focus, but they sure could have made much more out of that. Other than that, In This Our Life (1942) is a very likable movie, especially centering around the dull good people like Olivia de Havilland, George Brent, Frank Craven and so

Betty being bad.

Camp soap made tremendously entertaining by the performances, primarily Bette in full on scenery-chewing mode.

Davis pulls out all the stops, but her character is too shallow and narcissistic to be interesting on any level--in spite of Huston's competent direction and the long suffering performances of Morgan, de Havilland, and Brent. The only things I really liked about this film were Uncle Charlie Coburn's obvious lust for his little niece Bette, and a cameo appearance by Walter Huston as a bartender.. Outside of that, it's pretty boring.

You know you're in for a wacky time of it when there's a male character named Asa and the females are Stanley and Roy. This episode of The Bette Davis Show finds her doing every nasty thing you can think of. Melodramatic and kinda hokey (and Coburn was disappointingly broad), but on the whole done with enough panache and style to pull it off. And of course some crackling exchanges: "I always know what I'm doing"..."See what you escaped?" "See what you missed?"..."Who's winning?" "The dame."