[영화] 비욘드 더 포레스트 (Beyond The Forest, 1949)

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                          비욘드 더 포레스트 (Beyond The Forest, 1949)  
  
                                      감독 :  킹 비도 (King Vidor)
                                      출연 :  베티 데이비스 (Bette Davis as Rosa Moline),
                                               조셉 코튼 (Joseph Cotten as Doctor Louis Moline),
                                               David Brian as Neil Latimer,  
                                               Ruth Roman as Carol,
                                               Minor Watson as Moose,
                                               Regis Toomey as Sorren,
                                               Dona Drake as Jenny,
                                               Sarah Selby as Mildred
                                     장르 :  드라마 / 스릴러 / 느와르
                                     테마 :  Cons and Scams
                                     기타정보 :  미국 | 워너 브라더스 | 흑백 | 97 분

 Synopsis

"What a dump!" That's the classic line delivered by Bette Davis
at the halfway point of Beyond the Forest, her final Warner Bros.

effort of the 1940s. Some Davis devotees feel as though this
vituperative utterance is the high point of an otherwise turgid
melodrama; others consider the line a succinct assessment
of the entire film.

Based on a best-selling novel by Stuart Engstrand, the film stars
Davis as Rosa Moline, a small-town girl with big-city ambitions.
Trapped in a dull marriage to just-getting-by lawyer Lewis Moline
(Joseph Cotten), Rosa plots and plans to sexually entrap millionaire
industrialist Neil Latimer (David Brian).

That Rosa's scheme is doomed from the start is telegraphed at
every juncture by Max Steiner's sledgehammer musical score
(few will ever want to hear the song "Chicago" again after this).

Hampered by the censorship standards of the era, the film is
prevented from being as frank as the novel; in one scene,
for example, Rosa is obviously visiting an abortionist, but the sign
on the door reads "Psychiatrist." A standard entry in most film historians'
"Worst Movies" lists (even Davis herself hated it), Beyond the Forest is rather entertaining in its own schlocky fashion

                             *   *   *   *   *

Rosa is the neglected wife of a small-town doctor.
She grows bored and becomes infatuated with a visiting
Chicago businessman.
She extorts money from her husband's patients and uses
the cash to flee to Chicago.

However, the businessman does not welcome her, although
he manages to impregnate her before driving her away.

She is unable to remain in Chicago and unwelcome at home,
but the businessman has a change of heart and pursues her,
trying to win her back. After several plot twists, Rosa meets
a tragic fate.

Main Theme from <Beyond The Forest>( 1949)

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 베티 데이비스 (Bette Davis, 1908 ~ 1989)

1940년대 헐리우드 은막의 여왕이었고, 최고의 배우였다.
1936년도 영화 <지저벨>이란 영화로 아카데미 여우주연상을 수상한 연기파 배우.

베티 데이비스는 '헐리우드에서 눈이 가장 아름다운 여배우'.. 라고 알려져 있다 .

팝송 중에 킴 칸즈(Kim Carnes)가 불러 81년 3월 28일에 첫 차트에 오른 후 9주간 정상을
차지하면서 킴 칸즈의 명성을 높혔던 노래 <Bette Davis Eyes, 베티 데이비스 아이즈>..
이노래는 '베티 데이비스'의 아름답고 매력적인 눈'을 비유하여 묘사하고 있다고도 하고...
(그러나 실상은, 락의 여왕 '제니스조플린'을 흠모하며 만든 곡이라고도 한다.)

<로즈 (The Rose, 1979)>란 영화에서 주연을 맡았고, 'The Rose'란 노래로 잘 알려진
'Bette Midler(베트 미들러)'... '베트'의 어머니가 영화를 아주 좋아 해서, 당시 유명한
배우였던 '베티 데이비스'의 이름을 따서 그녀에게 '베트'라는 이름을 지어주었다고 한다.