The Silver Cord (1933)
- Directed by
- John Cromwell
- Genre
- drama film, romance film
- Country
- United States
- Runtime
- 1h 14m
- Rated
- NR
- Rating
- 7.2 of 10 from 8 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
A newly married woman struggles with her possessive mother-in-law who tries to control her son's life. The film focuses on the conflict between the wife and the domineering mother.
tensedramaticuncomfortableintimateemotionally chargeddatedclaustrophobic
What happens
The Silver Cord is a 1933 American pre-Code film produced and released by RKO Radio Pictures, and directed by John Cromwell. It was based on the 1926 Broadway play The Silver Cord by Sidney Howard that starred Laura Hope Crews as an overly possessive mother. Crews reprises her domineering mother role in this film with Joel McCrea and Irene Dunne as her son and daughter-in-law. Another Hollywood film dealing with an overbearing mother figure was Broken Laws (1924), produced by and starring Dorothy Davenport. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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