Dark Victory (1939) (MOD) "9+"

Dark Victory (1939) (MOD) "9+"Bette Davis' bravura, moving but never morbid performance as Judith Traherne, a dying heiress determined to find happiness in her few remaining months, remains a three hankie classic. But that success would never have happened if Davis hadn't pestered studio brass to buy Dark Victory's story rights. Jack Warner finally did so. skeptically. "Who wants to see a dame go blind?" he asked. Almost everyone: Dark Victory was Davis's biggest box office hit

Robert Lee Scott

Stephen McHattie (Watchmen's Hollis Mason

The double Oscar® winner*The Champ is ready to take on the world

But Pudgy has his own plans

Millionaire opera buff Lucius B

their victims and accomplices are brought to vivid life by a series of special guest stars including Anne Baxter

When Sebastian learns his new deckhand's identity

Filmmaker Stanley Kubrick explores the theme of sexual obsession (a subject he would revisit 37 years later in Eyes Wide Shut) with this darkly comic and deeply moving version of Vladimir Nabokov's novel

Also starring Ellia English and Garrett Morris

Spike and the rest of their pals

Delight may not be able to leave Gessant without someone being killed in this musical drama

But Margaret only resents Brant's success