Harriet Craig (1950)

Directed by

Vincent Sherman

Genre

drama film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 34m

Rated

NR

Rating

7.5 of 10 from 30 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A woman keeps a tight grip on her household through manipulation and control. Her obsession with order and status slowly pushes her husband away.

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What happens

Harriet Craig is a 1950 American drama film starring Joan Crawford. The screenplay by Anne Froelick and James Gunn was based upon the Pulitzer Prize-winning 1925 play Craig's Wife, by George Kelly. The film was directed by Vincent Sherman, produced by William Dozier, and distributed by Columbia Pictures. Harriet Craig is the second of three cinematic collaborations between Sherman and Crawford, the others being The Damned Don't Cry (1950) and Goodbye, My Fancy (1951). (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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