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<blockquote data-quote="ClassyCo" data-source="post: 439928" data-attributes="member: 7">HARRIET CRAIG has been free to watch online for quite sometime, so I finally got around to watching it this morning. Released in 1950, it falls within &quot;the Warner Brothers era&quot; for Crawford, even if she made it on a loan out to Columbia. I didn&#039;t know a whole lot about this movie other than it being based on a play called CRAIG&#039;S WIFE and that the two previous film versions retained that title. Oh, and apparently, Christina Crawford and director Vincent Sherman say the character Harriet Craig was quite like the real-life Joan Crawford. Looking at the movie, there really isn&#039;t all that much to the story. Harriet Craig (Crawford) is married to the well-to-do Walter Craig (Wendell Corey), and she&#039;s more concerned with keeping up with appearances over love and matrimony. To be blunt, Harriet is a narcissist who wants complete control over her life, the way things look, the way people in her life operate. She is manipulative, selfish, and has practically no redeeming qualities. When she finally reveals her distrust for men and her preoccupation with the &quot;look&quot; of her lifestyle in the film&#039;s final minutes, it&#039;s too late. If it was meant as some type of redemption for Harriet, it simply doesn&#039;t work for me. The bad seeds she&#039;s shown throughout the film, and even before the story starts, aren&#039;t easily erased. She&#039;s left alone in the house she&#039;s so desperately tried to maintain as the movie closes out. I was in the mood today to watch a Crawford movie, and that&#039;s why I decided to watch HARRIET CRAIG. It was decent, but not my favorite of hers. PS: the posters and advertisements try to make the film a noir, which it most definitely isn&#039;t. [ATTACH=full]59023[/ATTACH]</blockquote>

[QUOTE="ClassyCo, post: 439928, member: 7"] HARRIET CRAIG has been free to watch online for quite sometime, so I finally got around to watching it this morning. Released in 1950, it falls within "the Warner Brothers era" for Crawford, even if she made it on a loan out to Columbia. I didn't know a whole lot about this movie other than it being based on a play called CRAIG'S WIFE and that the two previous film versions retained that title. Oh, and apparently, Christina Crawford and director Vincent Sherman say the character Harriet Craig was quite like the real-life Joan Crawford. Looking at the movie, there really isn't all that much to the story. Harriet Craig (Crawford) is married to the well-to-do Walter Craig (Wendell Corey), and she's more concerned with keeping up with appearances over love and matrimony. To be blunt, Harriet is a narcissist who wants complete control over her life, the way things look, the way people in her life operate. She is manipulative, selfish, and has practically no redeeming qualities. When she finally reveals her distrust for men and her preoccupation with the "look" of her lifestyle in the film's final minutes, it's too late. If it was meant as some type of redemption for Harriet, it simply doesn't work for me. The bad seeds she's shown throughout the film, and even before the story starts, aren't easily erased. She's left alone in the house she's so desperately tried to maintain as the movie closes out. I was in the mood today to watch a Crawford movie, and that's why I decided to watch HARRIET CRAIG. It was decent, but not my favorite of hers. PS: the posters and advertisements try to make the film a noir, which it most definitely isn't. [ATTACH type="full" width="466px"]59023[/ATTACH] [/QUOTE]

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