The Anniversary
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Movie Reviews of The Anniversary
Movie Review: Highly Entertaining Black Comedy With Bette Davis At Her Monstrous Best
Summary: 5 Stars
Hammer Studios are definately best known for their Gothic horror efforts usually starring horror icons Peter Cushing and Chrsitopher Lee, however on occasion they did stray from their usual product with often very pleasing results. "The Anniversary", has always been one of my great favourites among the body of work of both Hammer Studios and the legendary Bette Davis. Having already appeared in Hammer's dark drama "The Nanny", in 1965 Bette Davis took on a very different type of role for her second Hammer engagement playing a wonderfully over the top "mother from hell", who manipulates and controls her three weak willed sons in a macabre game of cat and mouse. Rarely in her later years did Davis have such a meaty role as in "The Anniversary", and she has the time of her life totally upstaging everyone and everything to unforgettable effect here. Her castrating and caustic mother makes "Mommie Dearest", look like a sunday school teacher and audiences are guaranteed a grand old time watching one of Hollywood's greatest acting legends dominating the screen from beginning to end and showing all and sundry what larger than life acting on screen is all about.Movie Review: AND WHEN SHE WAS BAD.....
Summary: 5 Stars
....she was excellent. The legendary Bette Davis stars as a wealthy woman who uses her tongue as a machete to slice & dice her three grown sons and their significant others. She will stop at nothing, including blackmail and quite possibly even murder, to retain her control over them and their lives. Based on the stage play, this ultra-black British comedy/drama takes place during one evening as Mrs.Taggert (Davis) has her annual wedding anniversary celebration (Mr.Taggert is deceased) with her family paying her the usual (and reticent) homage. When the youngest son's new girlfriend tries to exert her influence, things begin to go awry. Anchor Bay has offered a fine print that's worth owning. The film shows it's stage origins a bit but the British cast is great and Davis is magnificent in a very, very wicked role. You may want to see it again just to catch some of her lines as the script is pungent and full of verbal slap-downs. Enjoy this one.Movie Review: I remember Mommie
Summary: 5 Stars
Bette Davis inhabits cruel matriarch Mrs. Taggart, a lady so mean she doesn't have a first name. She gathers her children (whom she refers to as her chicks) once a year to celebrate her Anniversary, whether of her marriage or widowhood is left to the imagination. Bette wiggles her way through this one, spewing honeyed venom at the cast and changing her eyepatch to suit her outfits. She also makes up for the lack of one eye by allowing the other one to upstage the rest of her- it widens in such mascara-laden shock so often one is afraid it will pop out and shoot across the room. All of this is played in lurid, living color, the better to appreciate Miss Davis' bright blue eye and slightly yellowed teeth: teeth she gleefully cuts on the rest of the cast. Buy this right now.Movie Review: Whatever Bette Wants...
Summary: 5 Stars
THE ANNIVERSARY is an amazing tale of motherhood gone horribly awry. Mrs Taggart (screen icon Bette Davis) is the matriarch of a bizarre family. With her husband long dead, Mrs. T keeps her three grown sons under her wing (control) through extremely devious means. She will utilize any device, trick, or extortion in order to hold onto
her boys! Tonight, on her 40th anniversary, two of them will attempt to leave her grasp. Mum's reaction and subsequent schemes are the black heart of this wonderfully twisted story. Watch as she plots and weaves her inescapable web! Ms. Davis is absolutely satanic in her sinister role! THE ANNIVERSARY is one of my favorite black comedies. Buy immediately...
Movie Review: BETTE AT HER BEST
Summary: 5 Stars
but she has a splendid cast with her... Forget about Margo Channing, Charlotte, Baby Jane etc being Bette`s most bitchy part...
THIS PART IS
Roughly 10 years before "Mommie Dearest"(Christina`s book-account of mother Joan Crawford) and Bette seems to do a Crawford imitation hehehe...
There are similareties to TV`s Angela Channing(Jane Wyman) in Falcon Crest and Alexis Carrington(Joan Collins) in Dynasty... but this 1 is TRULY a woman and mother from HELL!!! (True - Alexis loved her children)..
THIS HAS TO BE INCLUDED IN EVERY BETTE DAVIS-retrospecte along with her more famous films:-)