Possessed (1947) - little known film noir directed by Curtis Bernhardt, starring Joan Crawford, Van Heflin, Stanley Ridges, Raymond Massey and Geraldine Brooks
Rating 7.2/10
Runtime: 108 min
Language: English
Country: USA
Directed by: Curtis Bernhardt
IMDb Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0039725/
Cast
Joan Crawford ... Louise Howell
Van Heflin ... David Sutton
Raymond Massey ... Dean Graham
Geraldine Brooks ... Carol Graham
Stanley Ridges ... Dr. Harvey Willard
John Ridgely ... Harker
Moroni Olsen ... Dr. Ames
Description:A woman wanders the streets of Los Angeles in some sort of emotional distress. She is also under some delusion as she approaches many men, strangers who she calls "David." Eventually, an ambulance is called, the attendants who take her to the hospital, then eventually placed in the psychiatric ward. Placing her under some medication to help her remember, Dr. Harvey Willard, the psychiatrist on duty, is able to get some semblance of a story out of her over the ensuing days. This phase of her life begins just over a year ago when she, single RN Louise Howell, is employed by wealthy Dean Graham to take care of his chronically ill and largely bedridden wife, Pauline Graham, at their lake house outside of Washington, D.C. Due to her circumstances, Pauline believes that Dean and Louise are having an affair behind her back. Louise can see that Dean does have feelings for her that way in his loneliness. The "David" in question is David Sutton, a civil engineer who lives across the lake from the Grahams, and who has been having a secret affair with Louise. That relationship was meant to be casual, but David tries to break it off with her when he sees that she has fallen in love with him to an obsessional state. Louise begins to manipulate the situation to be in David's life, even if only peripherally. Louise also begins to feel that if she can't have David, nobody else should. Louise is eventually diagnosed with schizophrenia during this time - something she does not mention to anyone in her life - which places her story to Dr. Willard in some context, including what of the story is real and what is all part of her delusion...
Screens:
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Video and audio information:
Video : 3.31 GB, 4375 KBps, 23.976 fps, 788x576 (1.37:1), V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC x264 core 155
Audio : 99/62 MB (main/commentary), 128/80 Kbps, 48000 Hz, 2/2 channels, 0x55 = AAC/AAC, VBR/CBR
Subtitles (English closed captions embedded in a movie, to play them choose Subtitle=>Sub Track in VLC Player and separate English (including hearing impaired), Spanish, French, Portuguese, Greek, Czech, Hungarian, Romanian) posters and screenshots included
Double audio track information
This movie contains two audio tracks, one is original English, and the other is commentary by film historian Drew Casper. You can use VLC Player to easily choose between any of audio tracks (Audio => Audio track and switch to main audio track on Track 1, additional track on Track 2)
