The Damned Don't Cry
by Vincent Sherman
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Actor: David Brian, Hugh Sanders, Joan Crawford, Kent Smith, Steve CochranDirector: Vincent Sherman
Brand: Warner Brothers
Cinematographer: Ted D. McCord
Editor: Rudi Fehr
Producer: Jerry Wald
Writer: Gertrude Walker
Writer: Harold Medford
Writer: Jerome Weidman
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); French (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono
Format: Black & White, Closed-captioned, Dubbed, DVD-Video, NTSC, Subtitled
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 103 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2005-06-14
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Warner Home Video
Movie Reviews of The Damned Don't Cry
Movie Review: A little gem from the Crawford vaults
Summary: 4 Stars
Good Joan Crawford film, from the latter part of her strong Warner Brothers period. This one is more of a gangster picture than the rich, melodramatic "women's pictures" Crawford mostly made during this time, but there are certainly elements of the latter on display here, too.
It's funny, as I was watching this, I said to myself, "darn, this reminds me of the plot of Warren Beatty's 'Bugsy' movie of several years back." And, of course, as I discovered in one of the DVD's special features, this movie was inspired by exactly that: the story of gangster Bugsy Siegel and his created-from-whole-cloth rich socialite companion, Virginia Hill.
"The Damned Don't Cry" features a clean, sharp image on DVD. There's also a short but informative special feature (which I referred to above) consisting of interviews with director Vincent Sherman and several film scholars/enthusiasts, who offer interesting takes on the film. Other extras include the film's trailer and a movie-length commentary by director Sherman.
Entertaining, tough, and in many ways modern for its time, "The Damned Don't Cry" is well worth any film enthusiast's time.
Summary of The Damned Don't Cry
It's a man's world. And Ethel Whitehead learns there's only one way for a woman to survive in it: be as tempting as a cupcake and as tough as a 75-cent steak. In the first of three collaborations with director Vincent Sherman, Joan Crawford brings hard-boiled glamour and simmering passion to the role of Ethel, who moves from the wrong side of the tracks to a mobster's mansion to high society one man at a time. Some of those men love her. Some use her. And one a high-rolling racketeer abuses her. When the racketeer murders his rival in Ethel?s swanky living room, she flees a sure murder rap right back to the poverty she thought she had escaped. And this time there may not be a man to pick up the pieces of her shattered life.DVD Features:Audio Commentary:Commentary by Director Vincent ShermanFeaturette:New Featurette The Crawford Formula: An Interview with Director Vincent Sherman
Joan Crawford bashes her way through this melodrama inspired by the Bugsy Siegel-Virginia Hill story. Our girl walks out of tacky poverty at the beginning and re-shapes herself into a fur-lined mobster's moll, her will of steel out-pointing the men at every stop. David Brian (recently her Flamingo Road co-star) is the looming blond monster who runs the organization, Steve Cochran is the Bugsy guy building his own network in Nevada, and Kent Smith is the meek accountant Joan bullies into becoming a syndicate player. It's all from that mid-career post-Mildred Pierce period that served Crawford so well, with the full-on film noir look (Ted McCord photographed) and the strong whiff of American sleaze.
Joan Crawford's face had assumed its masklike quality at this point, and at times she seems more of a business manager than an actress: organizing each scene, pushing the story along to its next stop. In its own over-the-top way, it works: there isn't a moment when she doesn't seem capable of devouring anybody that stands in her way. Everything is writ large in this movie, which makes it a fitting target for a Carol Burnett send-up... and which also makes it a great deal of fun. --Robert Horton
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