Harriet Craig

1950

Drama

4
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Certified Fresh 83% · 1 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 83% · 250 ratings
IMDb Rating 7.3/10 10 2723 2.7K

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Plot summary

A perfectionist woman's devotion to her home drives away friends and family.

Top cast

Joan Crawford as Harriet Craig
K.T. Stevens as Clare Raymond
Ellen Corby as Lottie
Wendell Corey as Walter Craig
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865.46 MB
1280*962
English 2.0
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23.976 fps
1 hr 34 min
Seeds 8
1.57 GB
1438*1080
English 2.0
NR
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23.976 fps
1 hr 34 min
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Movie Reviews

Reviewed by mountainkath 8 / 10

A deliciously evil version of this story

Reviewed by bmacv 8 / 10

Crawford as domestic despot: A cautionary parable

"Harriet Craig" started out as a stage success – obviously, it struck familiar chords – and saw at least one previous film version (Craig's Wife, starring Rosalind Russell). Remade in 1950 with Joan Crawford commandeering the part of the domestic despot, the movie takes on a dimension that helped define camp. It also offers an unadulterated middle-period glimpse of the controlling monsters she had begun (Mildred Pierce, Humoresque) and continued (Torch Song, Johnny Guitar, Queen Bee) to play on film. (And, if there is a sliver of verity in her adopted daughter Cristina's report from the front lines, such roles paralleled her off-screen personality).It's a parable about the dangers of social ascendancy, an illustration of Thorstein Veblen's view of the affluent wife as agent of conspicuous consumption. Joan Crawford's Harriet Craig has it all: a husband in a grey flannel suit on his way up the corporate ladder (Wendell Corey), and so can buy her what she most desires: property and position. She's obsessed with who does and does not fit in with what she refers to as `our set' as she strikes poses in her perfect (and perfectly dull) upper-middle-class abode.That her only interest in her husband is as a meal ticket is revealed by her avoiding her wifely obligations under the pretext that bearing children would be dangerous. But she's not content to leave him be, maybe to enjoy a little action on the side; what might the other members of their `set' think? She craves total control. When he's about to go out of town on a business trip, thus slithering out at least temporarily from under her oppressive thumb, she intervenes, lying to his boss that he's a compulsive gambler. Finally, of course, the worm turns.... But, in the closing shot, when Crawford regally ascends her curved staircase alone among the splendor of her possessions, you wonder who's really won after all.This soapish melodrama remains surprisingly riveting. Perhaps it's the extra touch of authenticity Crawford brings to her portrayal (Mary Tyler Moore played a later version of this upscale shrew in Ordinary People; then of course there's always Martha Stewart). The movie preserves an uncanny sense of upward mobility in America, circa midcentury, a lugubrious self-importance that has not, alas, vanished from the land.
Reviewed by bob-790-196018 7 / 10

Good cast and outstanding dialogue

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