Beyond the Forest

Beyond the Forest (1949)

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"What a dump!" That's the classic line delivered by Bette Davis at the halfway point of Beyond the Forest, her final Warner Bros. effort of the 1940s. Some Davis devotees feel as though this vituperative utterance is the high point of an otherwise turgid melodrama; others consider the line a… More

Unrated, 1 hr. 36 min.
Directed By
King Vidor
Written By
Lenore J. Coffee, Stuart Engstrand
Genres
Drama, Mystery & Suspense, Classics
In Theaters
Jan 1, 1949 Wide
On DVD
Feb 27, 1991

Critic Reviews

  • Emanuel Levy, EmanuelLevy.Com

    Davis excels as the passionate but stranded housewife who describes her suffocating community as "a two train a day town." The expression What a Dump, which Liz Taylor repeats in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf comes from this Vidor-directed melodrama.

  • Dennis Schwartz, Ozus' World Movie Reviews

    Bombastic melodrama.

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  • jay n


    Wild lurid junk with Bette consuming whole portions of the scenery whole to try and save it.

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