Product Description

Club-footed Philip Carey enrols in medical school and falls in love with illiterate waitress Mildred Rogers. She rejects him and runs off with a salesman, but returns later pregnant and unmarried. Philip puts her up in an apartment and the pair become engaged, but Mildred has not yet satisfied her wanderlust

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #24222 in DVD
• Released on: 2004-10-25
• Rating: Suitable for 12 years and over
• Formats: Black & White, PAL
• Original language: English
• Number of discs: 1
• Running time: 82 minutes

Synopsis
After enrolling in medical school, Philip Carey falls in love with an illiterate waitress, Mildred Rogers. She rejects his advances and runs off with a salesman, but later returns pregnant and unmarried. She and Carey become engaged, but she remains unsatisfied.

Customer Reviews

good story, bad acting.
I do love Bette Davis, I think she just exudes glamour and nostalgia from my favourite decade, the 30s. However, (not going into the quality of the actual DVD because it's awful and crackles constantly)the film appears to lack something. I will not agree with people who say that because films are not blockbusters or are maybe sold a bit cheaper they are automatically awful because I have seem many fantastic films that are hardly known. However even though the pairing of Davis and Howard would appear flawless, the acting is surprisingly static and the actors do not actually seem to mesh well, seeming to perform individually rather than together when they are in the same scenes. I liked the story,but I'm sorry to say the acting was not up to much and therfore I cannot rate this highly.

Good movie, bad DVD
The recording on this DVD seems very poor, hazy and juddery like watching an early silent movie. I've seen this film on TV and it wasn't like this. I enjoyed the film itself. Bette's cockney accent is very bizarre, but she's otherwise great as usual. The DVD itself is sub-standard, but cost less than £3 so I don't feel ripped off, but the Bette Davis box sets I've bought from Amazon (100th Anniversary Collection and the Bette Davis Collection) are fantastic and I would recommend them first, by a million miles.

one to rent
As big a fan of Bette Davis as I am, I think it most unlikely that I would want to watch this film more than once so I am glad I rented it from the excellent Amazon selection rather than buy it. The plot is not exactly gripping and the performances not involving- Mr Howard looks and sounds as if he has been dipping into the Mogadon cupboard at the medical school. For me the best aspect of the whole thing is watching Bette Davis acting with her eyes.