Barbara Stanwyck shines here, as expected, as a mature woman suffering from a hear disease and facing a unavoidable heart surgery. She learns this from her doctor and has to prepare herself to this so important moment of her life. And not only, she also has problems with her twenty years old daughter, and her boyfriend, who Stanwyck doesn't appreciate that much; nor her husband. So you have already understood that this story is very close to real life problems which audiences may have too. The perfect and typical tv series topic where Barbara Stanwyck has a role that fit to her like a glove. A woman fighting on two fronts, her health - her life - and her family.
2 Reviews
Stanwyck gets the sympathy. Her family not so much.
mark.waltz30 May 2024
Warning: Spoilers
A bellowing husband (Sheppard Strudwick). A self-centered daughter (Yvonne Craig). An ailing mother needing heart surgery (Barbara Stanwyck). A family who doesn't know how to communicate. They're the stuff that soap operas were made for, and the situation is one of the most ridiculously melodramatic. Why Stanwyck won't force the issue of her illness to be revealed isn't dealt with, but spends the time trying to put her home in order.
I didn't find this one all that interesting, like a Ross Hunter women's melodrama without the Technicolor, without the detailed character development and without proper motivation. The father and daughter are not really likeable, and even Stanwyck seems a bit unmotivated. Craig overacts rather badly, and fortunately she toned things down by the time Batgirl was introduced.
I didn't find this one all that interesting, like a Ross Hunter women's melodrama without the Technicolor, without the detailed character development and without proper motivation. The father and daughter are not really likeable, and even Stanwyck seems a bit unmotivated. Craig overacts rather badly, and fortunately she toned things down by the time Batgirl was introduced.
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