Great role for Bette Davis and she knocks it out of the park by coming off as really unlikeable. This could've been just another potboiler melodrama, but Huston got the most out the script and the great cast despite them playing stereotypes. Charles Coburn doesn't have a lot of screen time but plays his standard avuncular self. Olivia de Havilland is second lady again. George Brent plods through his lines like he always does. But it all works.
Huston really went thick with the music, too. But, again, it works. There's some heavy handed social messaging. It works, too.
Huston really went thick with the music, too. But, again, it works. There's some heavy handed social messaging. It works, too.