"Baby Doll" 1956
We watched this movie late Sunday night on AMC. Seeing it was a Tennessee Williams play and an old one, I was surprised I had never seen, nor even ever heard of this movie.
It was shocking. I mean really; tense and there's no relief until the very end.
I wasn't surprised to find the following review, just surprised that I had never heard of this film before this.
And how could Eli Wallach play a hot Sicilian?
Yeah I might just give this one a 9.5; there was really no climax so the ending was sort of a let down. It never really peaked, so the denouement was a bit false and cheesy; strained.
Baby Doll (1956) has been called notorious, salacious, revolting, dirty, steamy, lewd, suggestive, morally repellent and provocative. Time Magazine was noted as stating: "Just possibly the dirtiest American-made motion picture that has ever been legally exhibited..." The stark, controversial, black and white film was so viciously denounced by the Legion of Decency upon its release that many theaters were forced to cancel their showings, but it still did moderately well at the box office despite the uproar. Baby Doll's impact was heightened by its themes: moral decay, lust, sexual repression, seduction, infantile eroticism and the corruption of the human soul.
Its advertisements and posters featured a sultry young "Baby Doll" curled up in a crib in a suggestive pose, sucking her thumb. The young actress portraying Baby Doll, Carroll Baker (25 years old and in her second film) received a well-deserved Best Actress Academy Award nomination for her role. To make the film appear more genuine and authentic, most of it was filmed on location in Benoit, Mississippi.
The landmark, tragi-comedy film, one of the most erotic cinematic works ever produced, was based on Tennessee Williams' first original film screenplay, interweaving and adapting two of his earlier one-act plays: "Twenty-Seven Wagons Full of Cotton" and "The Long Stay Cut Short" (aka "The Unsatisfactory Supper").
It was shocking. I mean really; tense and there's no relief until the very end.
I wasn't surprised to find the following review, just surprised that I had never heard of this film before this.
And how could Eli Wallach play a hot Sicilian?
Yeah I might just give this one a 9.5; there was really no climax so the ending was sort of a let down. It never really peaked, so the denouement was a bit false and cheesy; strained.
Baby Doll (1956) has been called notorious, salacious, revolting, dirty, steamy, lewd, suggestive, morally repellent and provocative. Time Magazine was noted as stating: "Just possibly the dirtiest American-made motion picture that has ever been legally exhibited..." The stark, controversial, black and white film was so viciously denounced by the Legion of Decency upon its release that many theaters were forced to cancel their showings, but it still did moderately well at the box office despite the uproar. Baby Doll's impact was heightened by its themes: moral decay, lust, sexual repression, seduction, infantile eroticism and the corruption of the human soul.
Its advertisements and posters featured a sultry young "Baby Doll" curled up in a crib in a suggestive pose, sucking her thumb. The young actress portraying Baby Doll, Carroll Baker (25 years old and in her second film) received a well-deserved Best Actress Academy Award nomination for her role. To make the film appear more genuine and authentic, most of it was filmed on location in Benoit, Mississippi.
The landmark, tragi-comedy film, one of the most erotic cinematic works ever produced, was based on Tennessee Williams' first original film screenplay, interweaving and adapting two of his earlier one-act plays: "Twenty-Seven Wagons Full of Cotton" and "The Long Stay Cut Short" (aka "The Unsatisfactory Supper").
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