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When Christabel (Joan Fontaine) comes to live with her cousin Donna Foster (Joan Leslie) she fools everyone with her sugary exterior. But soon the calculating, rapacious Christabel begins to sow seeds of discontent between Donna and her wealthy fiancé Curtis (Zachary Scott) by convincing Curtis that his fiancé is a gold-digger. When their engagement is broken and Donna leaves for London, Christabel tricks Curtis into marrying her. But it is only his money that Christabel is passionate about because she is in love with Nick (Robert Ryan), a rugged writer who loves her in return, but hates her for what she had done and who she is.
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13 of 13 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
Joan Fontaine stars in this 1950 classic playing the part she plays so well - ruthless and conniving!
Donna Foster (Joan Leslie) is about to get married to the handsome and wealthy Curtis Carey (Zachary Scott), but all goes pear-shaped when Christabel (Fontaine) arrives on the scene! She's out to get what she wants and when she wants it - and indeed she gets it - no matter who she hurts! Torn between the man she really loves (Robert Ryan) and the lifestyle she craves - she chooses the latter with consequences.
Absorbing and riveting movie from start to finish. My only gripe are the two love attractions for Fontaine; the man she loves and wants has nothing and is quite 'plain' (Robert Ryan) whilst the guy she prefers to 'use' is so handsome and rich (Zachary Scott) A bit hard to be convincing... I think the actors should have switched roles for this to make it more credible.
Fabulous movie though!
Donna Foster (Joan Leslie) is about to get married to the handsome and wealthy Curtis Carey (Zachary Scott), but all goes pear-shaped when Christabel (Fontaine) arrives on the scene! She's out to get what she wants and when she wants it - and indeed she gets it - no matter who she hurts! Torn between the man she really loves (Robert Ryan) and the lifestyle she craves - she chooses the latter with consequences.
Absorbing and riveting movie from start to finish. My only gripe are the two love attractions for Fontaine; the man she loves and wants has nothing and is quite 'plain' (Robert Ryan) whilst the guy she prefers to 'use' is so handsome and rich (Zachary Scott) A bit hard to be convincing... I think the actors should have switched roles for this to make it more credible.
Fabulous movie though!
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:VHS Tape
Joan Fontaine stars in this 1950 classic playing the part she plays so well - ruthless and conniving!
Donna Foster (Joan Leslie) is about to get married to the handsome and wealthy Curtis Carey (Zachary Scott), but all goes pear-shaped when Christabel (Fontaine) arrives on the scene! She's out to get what she wants and when she wants it - and indeed she gets it - no matter who she hurts! Torn between the man she really loves (Robert Ryan) and the lifestyle she craves - she chooses the latter with consequences.
Absorbing and riveting movie from start to finish. My only gripe are the two love attractions for Fontaine; the man she loves and wants has nothing and is quite 'plain' (Robert Ryan) whilst the guy she prefers to 'use' is so handsome and rich (Zachary Scott) A bit hard to be convincing... I think the actors should have switched roles for this to make it more credible.
Fabulous movie though!
Donna Foster (Joan Leslie) is about to get married to the handsome and wealthy Curtis Carey (Zachary Scott), but all goes pear-shaped when Christabel (Fontaine) arrives on the scene! She's out to get what she wants and when she wants it - and indeed she gets it - no matter who she hurts! Torn between the man she really loves (Robert Ryan) and the lifestyle she craves - she chooses the latter with consequences.
Absorbing and riveting movie from start to finish. My only gripe are the two love attractions for Fontaine; the man she loves and wants has nothing and is quite 'plain' (Robert Ryan) whilst the guy she prefers to 'use' is so handsome and rich (Zachary Scott) A bit hard to be convincing... I think the actors should have switched roles for this to make it more credible.
Fabulous movie though!
3 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
Joan Fontaine herself is critical of this strange 1950s film where miscast actors, utter 'one-liners' that are good AND bad.
It was meant to be be 'cool' ~ the artistic/rich side of San Francisco, but apart from a few establishing shots its all done 'on the lot' or anywhere in California.
Fontaine repeats her (predictable) facial expressions endlessly (the dance with Olivier in 'Rebecca') and the actual plot stretches the bounds of possibility too far; but then again it was meant to be 'cinematic froth'.
Howard Hughes (the force behind it) meddled with the end, so this DVD copy resolves with a cheap visual joke, rather than the original end (spoiler alert) of a car crash and Fontaine using her 'charm' to entrance her doctor to get another rich man, having been found out by the one she already betrayed.
It's all sugary melodrama, and Fontaine never had the acting skills of Crawford or Davis (or her sister De Havilland) BUT I recommend it anyway!
It was meant to be be 'cool' ~ the artistic/rich side of San Francisco, but apart from a few establishing shots its all done 'on the lot' or anywhere in California.
Fontaine repeats her (predictable) facial expressions endlessly (the dance with Olivier in 'Rebecca') and the actual plot stretches the bounds of possibility too far; but then again it was meant to be 'cinematic froth'.
Howard Hughes (the force behind it) meddled with the end, so this DVD copy resolves with a cheap visual joke, rather than the original end (spoiler alert) of a car crash and Fontaine using her 'charm' to entrance her doctor to get another rich man, having been found out by the one she already betrayed.
It's all sugary melodrama, and Fontaine never had the acting skills of Crawford or Davis (or her sister De Havilland) BUT I recommend it anyway!
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