Competent rendition of James M. Cain's novel and well screen-written by Ronald MacDougall . Mildred Pierce (Joan Crawford) is a tiring housewife living with his husband and two daughters . After her cheating husband (Bruce Bennett) leaves her, she turned waitress proving can become successful and independent businesswomen . As she begins waiting at tables into a restaurant and progresses creating a dinner chain . But she can't win the approval of her spoiled and ungrateful daughter(Ann Blyth) who is competing for infatuation with the same man and the mother loses her control . Tension run high as everything unravels until an exciting ending .
Thiis is a hard-boiled drama with touches of film Noir. It is packed with suspense , emotions , murder , intrigue , and is pretty entertaining . Top main cast with a splendid Joan Crawford whose acting in the title role won an Academy Award for best actress . Furthermore , a strong support cast as Zachary Scott , Jack Carson and Eve Arden who won Oscar nomination as likable friend . Fine cinematography in black and white with lights and darks by Ernest Haller , who along with Nicholas Musuraca and John Alton are the main artists of the classic photography that illuminates the Noir cinema. Excellent and tense score by the maestro Max Steiner fitting perfectly to intrigue and melodrama .Also shown in horrible computer colored version but is necessary avoid it .The motion picture is stunningly directed by Michael Curtiz . He is an expert in strictly American film Noir genre and in drama as proved in ¨Bright Leaf , Flaming Road , Passage Marseille¨ and of course ¨Casablanca¨ . Rating : Good , above average . Worthwhile watching .
Thiis is a hard-boiled drama with touches of film Noir. It is packed with suspense , emotions , murder , intrigue , and is pretty entertaining . Top main cast with a splendid Joan Crawford whose acting in the title role won an Academy Award for best actress . Furthermore , a strong support cast as Zachary Scott , Jack Carson and Eve Arden who won Oscar nomination as likable friend . Fine cinematography in black and white with lights and darks by Ernest Haller , who along with Nicholas Musuraca and John Alton are the main artists of the classic photography that illuminates the Noir cinema. Excellent and tense score by the maestro Max Steiner fitting perfectly to intrigue and melodrama .Also shown in horrible computer colored version but is necessary avoid it .The motion picture is stunningly directed by Michael Curtiz . He is an expert in strictly American film Noir genre and in drama as proved in ¨Bright Leaf , Flaming Road , Passage Marseille¨ and of course ¨Casablanca¨ . Rating : Good , above average . Worthwhile watching .