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Dark Victory (1939)

Dark Victory poster
Directed by
Edmund Goulding
Genre
drama film, romance film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 39m
Rated
NR
Rating
6.9 of 10 from 163 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A wealthy young woman faces a terminal illness. She finds love and confronts her mortality with the help of those close to her.

melancholicromanticemotionally intenseslow-burntendersomberpoignantclassic

What happens

Dark Victory is a 1939 American melodrama film directed by Edmund Goulding, starring Bette Davis, and featuring George Brent, Humphrey Bogart, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Ronald Reagan, Henry Travers, and Cora Witherspoon. The screenplay by Casey Robinson was based on the 1934 play of the same title by George Brewer and Bertram Bloch, starring Tallulah Bankhead. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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