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Movie Reviews of Possessed
Movie Review: One of Crawford's Best!
Summary: 5 Stars
This excellent drama has it all...high drama, great performances, clever storyline, beautiful art direction and La Crawford at her scene-stealing best. Really great and handsomely preserved here on DVD.
There's a neat little featuerette about its place in Film Noir, but unfortunately the professorial commentary track from a USC Film School staffer is over the top. He constantly refers to it as a "discussion" (how can ONE person have a discussion!? It's a 108 minute MONOLOGUE...he barely takes a breath) but it's more like his dissertation on the genre. He is, however, a brainy buff and his bites within the context of the overall collection are certainly worthwhile.
A classic picture you will enjoy seeing...Massey and Heflin keep up with Crawford, who operates on all engines throughout and never misses a moment to show how great she could be!
Movie Review: Joan Crawford shows why she was nominated
Summary: 5 Stars
One of Crawford's better Warner Bros. movies, 1947s "Possessed" is a film noir tour de force performance of the movie queens cannon of characters and movies.
In this film Crawford displays the mental breakdown of a woman who has everything she needs but nothing of what she wants. If you are the type of viewer that gets invested in a film you are watching and feel everything the character feels then this is one film that will have you as tense and anxious as you can be. Crawford doesn't do any of her usual mannerisms or tricks in this one. This is pure acting and emoting that let's you know that Crawford knew how to ply her craft and, with a good script and great support from director and cast, put out in the universe the vibe of "This is what I'm feeling and this is the struggle."
Pick up this DVD and you will not regret that you did.
Movie Review: "Oh, David, I want a monopoly on you ..."
Summary: 5 Stars
Fine noir psycho-melodrama starring Joan Crawford as a home nurse who is madly (literally) in love with cold-hearted, self-possessed engineer Van Heflin. He wants to break off their relationship; she won't hear of it. The plot really thickens when the woman she's caring for kills herself, and Crawford marries her widower (Raymond Massey); in the meantime, Massey's daughter falls in love with Heflin. Jealousies and possessive love all come to a boil, and Crawford ends up in the psycho ward of an LA hospital after killing Heflin. It's a masterstroke in approach that Crawford relates the story in flashback from her hospital bed after being given drugs to calm her down. The story is an excellent one, and both Crawford and Heflin play their parts well. Worth a watch.
Movie Review: true noir
Summary: 5 Stars
I've seen many of the principal films of the Noir Cycle, and this is among the top five in my opinion. The opening sequence comes the closest to what I'd always thought film noir ought to be. Joan Crawford far out-does herself in this one; 11 times better than Mildred Pierce or Sudden Fear. Both of the latter -- perhaps because I saw Possessed first -- severely disappointed me, and had merit only insofar as one got to watch the ex-flapper/noir-goddess/basketcase-extraordinaire. Another thing that makes Possessed excellent is the always cool, always authentic Van Heflin. This film is one of those rare noirs that rises above a mere genre into the realm of art.Movie Review: why i am obsessed with joan crawford
Summary: 5 Stars
there is only one reason why a framed picture of joan crawford sits on my bedside.. she is the greatest actress of all time.. Not just in the camp way that most people like her - she could so become a character - it is her presence - the very fabric of her being..
'possessed' is one of the finest examples of crawford the actress - she is so off the wall in this movie - and yet somehow we identify with her - love can do this to a person..
This is also one of Van Heflin's finer moments in cinema... Buy this and Mildred Pierce and have a festival..