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Beyond the Forest

Nobody's as good as Bette when she's bad!

6.7(54)19491h 37m1

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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Behind the camera

Director

King Vidor

Produced in

United States of America

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Release dates

  • United StatesUS

    • Theatrical21 Oct 1949

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Beyond the Forest was released on 21 October 1949.

Audience reviews

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    CONVERT94

    11/8/2017

    10/10

    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…

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    John Chard

    3/24/2019

    7/10

    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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