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The Bramble Bush (1960)

The Bramble Bush poster
Directed by
Daniel Petrie
Genre
drama film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 33m
Rated
NR
Rating
4.6 of 10 from 6 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A doctor returns to his hometown for a friend's funeral and becomes involved with the friend's wife. He faces pressure from the town's people over his past actions and a difficult moral decision.

tensemelancholicmorally complexsomberemotionalslow-burnintimateunsettling

What happens

The Bramble Bush is a 1960 American drama film, based on the controversial (for depicting euthanasia and scandalous relationships between the main character and his dying friend's wife) novel of the same name, directed by Daniel Petrie and starring Richard Burton, Angie Dickinson, Barbara Rush, Jack Carson and James Dunn. It was released by Warner Bros. Pictures. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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