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Mildred Pierce [videorecording (DVD)].

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Criterion Collection, 2017.

DVD MIL 1945 Dra

Mothers and daughters -- Drama.

Dysfunctional families -- Drama.

Social classes -- Drama.

[videorecording (DVD)].

Two-DVD special ed.

1 videodisc (111 min.) : Dolby digital mono. sd., b&w ; 12 cm.

Based on the novel by James M. Cain.

Originally produced as a motion picture in 1945.

Special features: New 4K digital restoration ; new interviews with critics Molly Haskell and Robert Polito ; excerpt from a 1970 episode of The David Frost Show featuring actor Joan Crawford ; Joan Crawford: the ultimate movie star, A 2002 feature-length documentary ; Q&A with Actor Ann Blyth from 2002, conducted by film historian Eddie Muller ; segment from a 1969 episode of the Today Show featuring Mildred Pierce novelist James M. Cain ; trailer ; PLUS: an essay by critic Imogen Sara Smith.

A selection of the National Film Registry, 1996.

In black & white.

Closed-captioned.

Warner Bros. Pictures Inc. presents ; a Warner Bros. - First National picture ; screenplay by Ranald MacDougall ; produced by Jerry Wald ; directed by Michael Curtiz.

Joan Crawford, Jack Carson, Zachary Scott, Eve Arden, Ann Blyth, Bruce Bennett, Lee Patrick, Moroni Olsen, Veda Ann Borg and Jo Ann Marlowe.

"Melodrama casts noirish shadows in this portrait of maternal sacrifice from Hollywood master Michael Curtiz. Its iconic performance by Joan Crawford as Mildred, a single mother hell-bent on freeing her children from the stigma of economic hardship, solidified Crawford's career comeback and gave the actor her only Oscar. But as Mildred pulls herself up by the bootstraps, first as an unflappable waitress and eventually as the well-heeled owner of a successful restaurant chain, the ingratitude of her materialistic firstborn (a diabolical Ann Blyth) becomes a venomous serpent's tooth, setting in motion an endless cycle of desperate overtures and heartless recriminations. Recasting James M. Cain's rich psychological novel as a murder mystery, this bitter cocktail of blind parental love and all-American ambition is both unremittingly hard-boiled and sumptuously emotional."--Container.

Coming-of-age films.

Melodrama and tearjerker films.

Films for the hearing impaired.

Cain, James M. (James Mallahan), 1892-1977. Mildred Pierce.

Curtiz, Michael, 1888-1962.

Crawford, Joan, 1908-1977.

Carson, Jack, 1910-1963.

Scott, Zachary, 1914-1965.

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