Marked Woman
by Friz Freleng, Lloyd Bacon, Michael Curtiz, Robert Clampett
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Actor: Bette Davis, Humphrey Bogart, Isabel Jewell, Lola Lane, Mel BlancDirector: Friz Freleng, Lloyd Bacon, Michael Curtiz, Robert Clampett
Brand: Warner Brothers
Writer: Abem Finkel
Writer: Ernest Gee
Writer: Robert Rossen
Writer: Seton I. Miller
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 1.0; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC, Subtitled
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 96 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2006-05-30
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Warner Home Video
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Movie Review: Tough crowd
Summary: 4 Stars
Almost immediately after New York attorney general successfully prosecuted Lucky Luciano for running a massive prostitution ring in 1936, Warner Bros. came out with this excellent version of the story starring Bette Davis. This is one of the rare Thirites crime dramas where the emphasis is mostly on women and their interrelations: Davis plays Mary Dwight, an especially vivacious hostess at Eduardo Cianelli's Manhattan clip joint the Club Intime, and the film is primarily about her relationship with her sister and with the other "hostesses." (Despite the fact that the film came out after the institution of the Hays Code, the film is exceptionally clear about what Davis and the other women actually do to make their money.) The suspense is terrific, and the film treats violence pretty unflinchingly for its period: there's a horrifying sequence where two of Cianelli's thugs work Davis over in another room as the other women she works with listen in horror. Humphrey Bogart is better than might be expected in an atypical heroic part, the Thomas Dewey role, and Davis is as usual quite fine (except for the disappointing scene where she overdoes it when she learns the fate of her sister in Bogart's office). Her ability to hold the camera's attention was perhaps unparalleled at this stage in her career. Cianelli deserves much credit for making such a villain so genuinely loathsome; the unusual Mayo Methot, who married Bogart after meeting him on the set of this film, plays one of the other hostesses.
Summary of Marked Woman
Young assistant District Attorney uses a prostitute to indict gang of racketeers, its czar and his underlings.In the mood for a dose of unfiltered, high-octane Bette Davis? Check out Marked Woman, a bristling 1937 vehicle from her early Warners period. This one is loosely based on the Lucky Luciano saga, with maybe a few borrowings from Edna Ferber's Stage Door. Davis plays the feistiest of a group of clip-joint girls, who board together when they're not cutting a rug with clients (read: suckers) at a nightclub. Crusading district attorney Humphrey Bogart wants Davis to testify against mobster Eduardo Ciannelli, but the price would be high. Meanwhile, Bette's innocent little sister (Jane Bryan) comes to visit from college and gets more than she bargained for. The melodrama of the story is a blunt object, but you won't be able to keep your eyes off Davis, who spits and sparks like a young dragon. She's so electrically "on" that other actors sometimes look a little afraid of her. The film is true to the Warners spirit of surveying a lower tier of society, and the actresses who play the clip-joint girls have an earthy energy (Isabel Jewell is a standout). One of them is Mayo Methot, the tough-looking character actress who married Bogart shortly after the film's release. --Robert Horton
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