Beyond the Forest
1949 American film noir directed by King Vidor / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Beyond the Forest is a 1949 American film noir directed by King Vidor, and featuring Bette Davis, Joseph Cotten, David Brian, and Ruth Roman. The screenplay is written by Lenore Coffee based on a novel by Stuart Engstrand.[2]
Beyond the Forest | |
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Directed by | King Vidor |
Screenplay by | Lenore Coffee |
Based on | the novel Beyond the Forest by Stuart D. Engstrand |
Produced by | Henry Blanke |
Starring | Bette Davis Joseph Cotten |
Cinematography | Robert Burks |
Edited by | Rudi Fehr |
Music by | Max Steiner |
Distributed by | Warner Bros. |
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Running time | 97 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Budget | $1,589,000[1] |
Box office | $1,738,000[1] |
The film marks Davis's last appearance as a contract actress for Warner, after eighteen years with the studio. She tried several times to walk away from the film (which only caused the production cost to go through the roof), but Warner refused to release her from their employment contract.[3] She remembered the project as "a terrible movie",[4] and her death scene at the end of the film as "the longest death scene ever seen on the screen".[3]