

Beyond the Forest
Nobody's as good as Bette when she's bad!
Rosa, the self-serving wife of a small-town doctor, gets a better offer when a wealthy big-city man insists she get a divorce and marry him instead. Soon she demonstrates she is capable of rather deplorable acts -- including murder.
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- Status
- Released
- Budget
- $1.6M
- Box office
- $1.7M
- Language
- English
- small town
- pregnancy
- film noir
- campy
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- Theatrical21 Oct 1949
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Beyond the Forest was released on 21 October 1949.
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2- C10/10
CONVERT94
11/8/2017
Who better than Ms. Davis to impersonate herself? This is her last film for Warner Brothers so old Harry gave her the screws with this melodramatic pot-boiler which, as it turn out, is an absolute hoot. A plethora of zingers, one-liners and one of the most famous lines in American cinema ("What a dump"), Bette chews up the scenery in her long hair wig and heaving breasts like never before. She's just plain nasty and…
- J7/10
John Chard
3/24/2019
You don't like life! Beyond the Forest is directed by King Vidor and written by Lenore J. Coffee and Stuart Engstrand. It stars Bette Davis, Joseph Cotton, David Brian, Ruth Roman, Minor Watson and Regis Toomey. Music is by Max Steiner and cinematography by Robert Burks. Resentful of her small-town life, Rosa Moline (Davis), a married woman, schemes to run off with a rich businessman - and she will do anything …
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