Rating: - An Outdated Schmaltzy Film
So many people seem to like this film - Madame X. I don't. I 've seen
it on television and am glad I never saw it in a theater in 1966.
The cast is excellent (Lana Turner, John Forsythe, Burgess Meredith,
Ricardo Montalban, Joan Whats-Her-Name)but the plot and the schmaltzy
dialogue plus the tear-jerking conclusion leave me laughing and that's it.
Why was this movie made ? And as late as 1966. This is a 1940'-50's film,
in my opinion, and outdated by the Sixties. But so many people seem to like
it. Sentimentality. Sob, sob, sob......You can have Madame ... Read More
Rating: - "Never end on a dangling insult!"
Scandal has wreaked havoc on many a star's career, but it gave Lana Turner a third-act career boost. La Lana's audience wanted -- and got -- scenes like the one here in which she's told by her live-in-mother-in-law, Constance Bennett, "You're an unfit mother, guilty of adultery. Your prosecutor will say you killed your lover. Even if a clever attorney gets you off, the mud will cling!" (Never mind that Turner hadn't killed smoothie Richardo Montalban -- in fact, she'd been in the midst of calling him "A contemptible, rotten . . ." when he'd replied, "A contemptible, rotten what? Never end on a dangling ... Read More
Rating: - Golden oldie!!
This is the type of movie we should all be watching.. good story and has a lesson to it. A real "tear-jerker."
Rating: - Imitation of Laff
A lot of people love this movie and so do I--but probably not for the same reason. Not for nothing was this the last gasp of the Ross Hunter tearjerkers in the "Imitation of Life"/"Back Street" mode. By the mid-Sixties, this type of hokum was far more comic than melodramatic--just look at the ridiculous casting, which includes a 40-something Lana Turner (who'd just played Sandra Dee's mother/stepmother in her last few pictures) as a young bride. . . having her first child! Surrounding her with inappropriate actors like bland John Forsythe (as her middle-aged ambitious "young" husband) and veteran Constance ... Read More
Rating: - One of the Greats!
If you're looking for a rainy afternoon or late night tearjerker, bursting at the seams with impeccable style, glamour and delicious disaster, this is your film. Only Lana Turner can deliver such wistful heartbreak in the finest gowns and jewels one instant, and next be the tragic victim of misfortune, suffering as only those who fall from on high can know. To call it melodrama would be an insult, this is classic cinema, with Hollywood royalty.
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